Higher education as a moral enterprise /

Main Author: Long, Edward Le Roy.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • On the nature of a moral perspective
  • Defining educational purpose : crucial task and elusive goal
  • Education and selfhood
  • Cognitive, affective, and kinesthetic skills in the wholeness of selfhood
  • The significance of community for the institution of learning
  • Frolic and celebration in the academy
  • Grading and growth
  • The curriculum : debates about boundaries and methodologies
  • Toward a post-enlightenment epistemology from certainty about doubt to doubt about certainty
  • Elegance and maturity : measures of scholarly style
  • Doing truth : on sustaining a scholarly ethos
  • Pilgrimage and professionalism in pedagogical interaction
  • Learning and social responsibility : prolegomana to the discussion
  • Power and credibility : contrasting modes of social influence
  • The academy as neighbor and citizen
  • Governance as communal responsibility
  • Policy study : beyond neutrality and above partisanship
  • The public promise of the scholarly ideal.