Chris Higgins

Undeclared

A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"With satirical wit and philosophical rigor, Higgins critiques the empty rhetoric of the contemporary university, and articulates a vision of what substantive formative education could be"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780262547499
• ISBN-10: 026254749X
• Artikelnr.: 70663013

Autorenporträt

Chris Higgins is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Formative Education in Boston College's Lynch School of Education and Human Development, where he directs the Transformative Educational Studies program. He is the author of The Good Life of Teaching.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue xvii
Campus Tour 1
SOUL ACTION: THE SEARCH FOR INTEGRITY IN GENERAL EDUCATION 13
The Formidable Task of Formation 13
Roots and Branches 27
Scattering Requirements 46
A Skeleton Faculty 60
Chest Knowledge 71
Coda 88
New Student Orientation 93
WIDE AWAKE: AESTHETIC EDUCATION AT BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 109
The Road to Black Mountain 109
An Allegory of Arrival 124
Who Is the Formative Educator? 141
Theater and Wings 157
Learning Here and Now 176
Public Hearing 189
JOB PROSPECTS: VOCATIONAL FORMATION AS HUMANE LEARNING 201
Life in Panem 201
The Great Vocational Question 207
Working with Integrity 220
A New Organ 236
The Last Butler 249
Notes 265
Index 377