The Relevance of Higher Education

Exploring a Contested Notion
Herausgeber: Simpson, Timothy

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Produktbeschreibung

The Relevance of Higher Education: Exploring a Contested Notion, edited by Timothy L. Simpson, examines the relevance of higher education from diverse disciplinary perspectives to grasp its historical and philosophical assumptions, and its implications for the relationship bet...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780739182529
• ISBN-10: 0739182528
• Artikelnr.: 39046271

Autorenporträt

Edited by Timothy Simpson - Contributions by Lee Trepanier; Jon M. Fennell; Bryan R. Warnick; Michael Schwartz; Wayne Willis; James Scott Johnston; Bradley C.S. Watson; Michael Wayne Hail; Jason R. Jividen; Mark Jonas; Stephen Clements and Wilfred M. McCl

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Chapter 1. A Philosophy of Prudence and the Purpose of HIgher
Education Today by Lee Trepanier Chapter 2. Relevance in Higher Education:
A Modest Proposal by Jon M. Fennell Chapter 3. The Expanding Circuit of
Life: Higher Education, Wit, and Relevance by Bryan R. Warnick Chapter 4.
Virtue, Happiness, and Balance: What Jefferson Can Still Teach us about
Higher Education by Michael Schwartz Chapter 5. Toward a Neo-Perennialist
Philosophy of Liberal Education by Wayne Willis Chapter 6. Academic Freedom
and the Role of the Humanities by James Scott Johnston Chapter 7. The
University and the Polis in an Age of Relevance by Bradley C.S. Watson
Chapter 8. Order and Educational Relevance: Crisis and Conservancy in
Western Civilization by Michael Wayne Hail Chapter 9. American Democracy
and Liberal Education in an Era of "Relevance" by Jason R. Jividen Chapter
10. The Social Relevance of Egoism and Perfectionism: Nietzsche's Education
for the Public Good by Mark Jonas Chapter 11. Irrelevance is Not an Option:
Higher Education and the American Socio-economic System by Stephen Clements
Chapter 12. Institutional Diversity and the Future of American Higher
Education: Reconsidering the Vision of David Riesman by Wilfred M. McClay
About the Authors