Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University: Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9783319891453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 268 str.

Aaron Stoller; Eli Kramer

Opis

This edited collection brings together a robust range of philosophers who offer theoretically and critically informed proposals regarding the aims, policies, and structures of the university.

Spis treści

Part I. The Problematic Situation: Challenges Facing Higher Education 

Chapter 1. Postmodern Worldmaking and the Unanimous Academy

Chapter 2. Neoliberalism, Technology, and the University

Chapter 3. Promoting More than Just ‘Diversity’ at Colleges and Universities

Part II. The Wellspring of Experience: Reflections on Robust Higher Education

Chapter 6. Toward a Philosophy and Practice of Liberal Education

Chapter 7. The Conversation of a University

Part III. Generalization: Reconstructive Proposals for the University

Chapter 8. Culture and the University: An Ecological Approach

Chapter 9. Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global Connection

Chapter 10. An African Theory of the Point of Higher Education

Part IV. Return to Experience: Reconstruction Put into Practice

Chapter 11. Remaking the Academy: The Potential and the Challenge of Transdisciplinary Collaborative Engagement

Part V. Future Inquiry: Higher Education in the Coming Century

Chapter 12. The Coming Revolution in (Higher) Education: Process, Time, and Singularity

O autorze

Aaron Stoller is Director of First Year Experience at Colorado College, USA.

Eli Kramer is an affiliated researcher at the Department of the Philosophy of Culture at the University of Warsaw Institute of Philosophy, Poland. He is also a Philosophy PhD Candidate at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.

Blurb

This edited collection brings together a robust range of philosophers who offer theoretically and critically informed proposals regarding the aims, policies, and structures of the university. The collection fills a major gap in the landscape of higher education theory and practice while concurrently reviving a long and often forgotten discourse within the discipline of philosophy. It includes philosophers from across the globe representing disparate philosophical schools, as well as various career stages, statuses, and standpoints within the university. There is also a diversity in method, approach and style, which varies from personal narratives and case studies, to philosophical genealogies, to traditional philosophical essays, and to systematic theories. The collection can serve as a theoretical resource for critically minded administrators and faculty who wish to analyze and change policies and structures at their home institutions. It will introduce them to a wide range of possible educational imaginaries, as well as provide them with productive suggestions for pragmatic change on campuses.