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Rhoads, Robert A.; Calderone, Shannon M. – Educational Theory, 2007
In this review essay, Robert Rhoads and Shannon Calderone consider how liberalism, as a guiding principle for school practices and educational policy making, reinforces heteronormativity through a doctrine of professed neutrality that circumscribes sexual expression and subjectivity. Through an analysis of Carol Vincent's "Social Justice,…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Political Attitudes, Educational Policy, Citizenship
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Rhoads, Robert A. – Peer Review, 2003
Asserts that juxtaposing traditional notions of liberal education with emerging views of civic engagement, captured most forcefully by the service learning movement, reveals common themes rooted in a democratic vision of society and the power of education to advance citizenship. (EV)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Higher Education, Liberal Arts
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Rhoads, Robert A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
Discusses how service learning can promote the development of a "caring self" in college students by drawing on the ideas of John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and contemporary critical theorists. Links this caring self to democratic citizenship and uses students' narratives to illustrate how it develops through service learning contexts.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy, Helping Relationship