CEDH Learning Coffee Visiting Fellow

Democratic Civic Identity: A New Vision for Campus Community Engagement

Speaker: Robert G. Bringle, Indiana University

Most educators will affirm that they would like the graduates of their degree programs to be well-informed persons who contribute to the public good. As desirable as this goal might be, how does a curriculum produce such a civically-oriented graduate beyond the technical and academic training that they receive in a degree program? Answering this question strengthened our university’s commitment to service-learning as a means for producing civic-minded graduates and civic-minded professionals.

This presentation will summarize research on the civic-minded graduate construct and then use it as a building block for conceptualizing democratic civic identity as a superordinate construct that can guide course learning goals, program learning goals, and institutional integration of all aspects of a democratically-engaged campus.

About Robert G. Bringle:
Dr. Bringle has been involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs directed at talented undergraduate psychology majors, high school psychology teachers, first-year students, and the introductory psychology course. As a social psychologist, he is widely known for his research on close relationships and jealousy.

Nota: This Learning Coffee Visiting Fellow will be held in English only. 

05-06-2025 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |Room Porto