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Higher education as a moral enterprise

eBook, English, 1992
Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 1992
1 online resource (xv, 221 pages)
9780585245553, 9781589013421, 058524555X, 1589013425
44965232
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
English