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Higher Education in the Making
- Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon
Engelsk Paperback
Higher Education in the Making
- Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon
Engelsk Paperback

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Argues for a pragmatic canon always in need of renovation.

George Allan argues that the so-called "culture wars" in higher education are the result of the dogmatic and unyielding certainty that both canonists and anti-canonists bring to any discussion of how best to organize an undergraduate curriculum. He then proposes a middle way. Drawing from William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead, he contrasts the absolutist claims of both canonists and anti-canonists with a fallibilist approach and argues for a more pragmatic canon that is normative and always in need of renovation.

A wide variety of voices are heard in Allan''s conversation about the nature and meaning of an education canon, including philosophers Aristotle, Descartes, Arthur Lovejoy, Hannah Arendt, Spengler, Emerson, Lyotard, and Rorty. Contemporary voices include Eva Brann, Charles Anderson, Francis Oakley, Martha Nussbaum, Gerald Graff, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Bill Readings.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
262
ISBN-13:
9780791459904
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
079145990X
Udg. Dato:
26 feb 2004
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
26 feb 2004
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