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Higher education in the making :

0791459896

9780791459898

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Higher education in the making :

[Book]

pragmatism, Whitehead, and the canon /

George Allan

Albany :

State University of New York Press,

[2004]

©2004

xv, 244 pages ;

24 cm

SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index

Crumbling cathedrals -- Content canonists -- Procedural canonists -- Anti-canonists -- Relative canonists -- Canonical dynamics -- Canonical dialectics -- Pragmatic canonists -- Education for a democracy -- Religious education -- Education for our common good -- Cathedral ruins -- Constructive pragmatics

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"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."--Jacket

Canon (Literature)

Education, Higher-- Curricula-- United States

Postmodernism and education-- United States

Pragmatism

Allan, George,1935-

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