John F. Freie is Professor and Chair of Political Science, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA. He is the founder of the department's Service Learning program and introduced as the department's mission a focus on citizenship education. He is the aut
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John F. Freie is Professor and Chair of Political Science, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA. He is the founder of the department's Service Learning program and introduced as the department's mission a focus on citizenship education. He is the author of Counterfeit Community: The Exploitation of Our Longings for Connectedness (1998) and numerous articles on teaching pedagogies that introduce democratic practices into the classroom. With his colleague, Susan M. Behuniak, he has taught a course on The Politics of Cyberspace, and he has researched the impact of techno-digital devices on community and on citizens.
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