Identity Excellence (eBook)

A Theory of Moral Expertise for Higher Education

Perry L. Glanzer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
184 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6549-3 (ISBN)

Infos

American higher educationhistorically and inherentlyis a morally formative endeavor. Yet, in order to respond to America's moral pluralism, higher education has increasingly taken a reductionistic approach to moral formation. Consequently, it abandoned the effort to supply students with moral expertise. Current approaches help students learn how to be excellent professionals and citizens, but they fail to provide the necessary tools for living the good lifein college and beyond.Identity Excellence: A Theory of Moral Expertise for Higher Education addresses this problem by setting forth a multi-disciplinary theory of moral expertise for fostering moral excellence in an array of important identities. To this end, it teases apart the essential elements of what it means to be excellent in an identity before discussing the philosophical, sociological, psychological, and educational processes necessary for students to internalize traditions of identity excellence as part of their own moral identities. Overall, the emergent theory exposes the shortcomings in contemporary general education, professional ethics, and co-curricular education.Finally, this book sets forth a bold but compelling vision for a more hopeful future for American higher education. As outlined within, such education involves teaching students' excellence in the Great Identities, as well as how to prioritize and integrate their pursuit of identity excellence.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Character development • character education • civic responsibility • colleges and universities • collegiate curriculum reform • cultivating virtue • Curriculum reform • developing good values • Educational Philosophy • education reform • ethics • general college education • General Education • Great Identities • identity formation • Identity politics • intellectual virtues • personal ethics • personal values • Philosophy of education • Professional Ethics • student affairs • student development • student value formation • student values • Value Formation • virtue • Virtue epistemology • virtue theory
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-6549-X / 147586549X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-6549-3 / 9781475865493