Robert J Thompson

Beyond Reason and Tolerance

The Purpose and Practice of Higher Education

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Produktbeschreibung

Beyond Reason and Tolerance argues that to prepare students to engage political, ethnic, and religious differences, higher education must adopt a developmental model for a formative and liberal undergraduate education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199969784
• ISBN-10: 0199969787
• Artikelnr.: 39525304

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Thompson is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He was formerly Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: American Higher Education in the 21st Century
Chapter 2: Emerging Adulthood: A Developmental Science Perspective
Chapter 3: Personal Epistemology
Chapter 4: Empathy
Chapter 5: Identity and the Process of Self-Authorship
Chapter 6: Campus Culture: Developing the Capacities to Constructively Engage Difference
Chapter 7: Providing a Formative Undergraduate Liberal Education
References