Higher Education in the Making
Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon
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.>George Allan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Dick…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-8555-2
- EAN: 9780791485552
- Produktnummer: 35072524
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 262 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 757 KB
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