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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stoller, Aaron (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kramer, Eli (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Education-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Higher education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .