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Downs Donald Alexander

Arms and the university : Military presence and the civic education of non-military students - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012 - 441p xi

Table of Contents:
Part I. A Normative and Pedagogical Framework:
1. The closing of the university mind: the military/university gap and the problem of civic and liberal education
2. Education in the regime: how a military presence can enhance civic and liberal education
Part II. ROTC and the University:
3. ROTC and the university: an introduction
4. ROTC and the Ivies: before the storm
5. ROTC and the Ivies: the divorce
6. ROTC, Columbia, and the Ivy League: Sisyphus renews his quest to renew a troubled relationship
7. Post-DADT: Sisyphus nears the top of the mountain
8. Pedagogy and military presence: the educational influence of student-soldiers in their own words
9. Winning hearts and minds?: The consequences of military presence for non-military students
Part III. Military History Examined:
10. Military history: an endangered or protected species?
11. Half empty or half full?: Military historians' perspectives on the status of military history and the leading departments
12. Military presence in security studies: political realism (re)considered
13. Security studies in the wake of the Cold War university: paragons of productive fiction, or throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Part IV. Concluding Thoughts:
14. Conclusion: placing the military in the university.

ISBN: 9780511844447

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Army Reserve Officers Corporations - U S A2. Educaton - Humanistic3. Soldiers - Civil Military Relations

Dewey Class. No.: 355.2 DOW