Jennifer S Simpson

Longing for Justice

Higher Education and Democracy's Agenda

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Longing for Justice combines personal narrative with critical analysis to make the case for educational practices that connect to questions of democracy, justice, and the common good.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780802099785
• ISBN-10: 0802099785
• Artikelnr.: 41025149

Autorenporträt

By Jennifer S. Simpson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One. Higher Education and Democracy’s Agenda: Resisting
“Streamlined” Education
Chapter Two. Higher Education and the Social Contract: Considering the “We”
of Public Life
Chapter Three. Civic Engagement and Service Learning: The Burden of Liberal
Norms
Chapter Four. “What Do You Think? 41 Bullets?”: The Relationship of the
Subject and the Social
Chapter Five. Liberal Norms and Questions of Practice: Education, Ethics,
and Interests
Chapter Six. Epistemological Architectures: Possibilities for Understanding
the Social
Chapter Seven. The Work of the “We”: Democracy’s Agenda and Curricular and
Pedagogical Possibilities
References
Endnotes