How educators manage classes, give feedback, treat misbehavior, interact personally, foster relationships… are all factors that take no more time and cost no more money, yet dispose students to care about the greater good, to endeavor make their communities and their world a better place, and to be more intrinsically interested in academics.
The essential question then, is: what can educators do—all in the context of challenging academic curriculum—to promote a disposition toward social responsibility, including the attitudes, skills, and knowledge that lead to such responsibility?
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