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March 29, 2017
A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice
- Author
- Sullivan, William M., and Matthew S. Rosin
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
- ISBN
- 9780470257579
- Table of Contents
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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
ch. 1 Partners in the Field: Part One
ch. 2 Partners in the Field: Part Two
ch. 3 A Narrative of the Seminar
ch. 4 Practical Reason as an Educational Agenda
Conclusion: Taking Formative Action
Appendix 1 Partner Syllabi
Hessel Bouma III, "Human Biology," Calvin College
Elliot N. Dorff, "Issues in Jewish Ethics," American Jewish University
Gary Lee Downey and Juan Lucena, "Engineering Cultures," Virginia Tech and Colorado School of Mines
Daisy Hurst Floyd, "Advanced Legal Ethics: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in Legal Life," Mercer University School of Law
Allen S. Hammond IV, "Contracts," Santa Clara University School of Law
Robert McGinn, "Ethical Issues in Engineering," Stanford University
Timothy Murphy and Michele Oberman, Selected Cases from "Ethics and Law," University of Illinois College of Medicine
William C. Spohn, "Scripture and the Moral Life," Santa Clara University
Barbara S. Stengel, "Foundations of Modern Education," Millersville University
Appendix 2 Seminar Assignments
Assignment for Session One, September 2002
Assignment for Session Two, January 2003
Syllabus Narrative Writing Assignment, Summer 2003
Assignment for Session Three, November 2003
Follow-Up Reflection Questions, January 2004
References
In A New Agenda for Higher Education, the authors endorse higher education's utility for enhancing the practical as well as intellectual dimensions of life by developing a third, different conception of educational purpose. Based on The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching seminar that brought together educators from six professional fields with faculty from the liberal arts and sciences, A New Agenda for Higher Education proposes an educational aim of "practical reason," focusing on the interdependence of liberal education and professional training.
The book includes case studies of instructors from a wide array of disciplines including those who educate their students for practical responsibility. The authors document the process by which they learned to collaborate with one another across fields and, in the end, produced a new discourse of practical reason. (From the Publisher)
The book includes case studies of instructors from a wide array of disciplines including those who educate their students for practical responsibility. The authors document the process by which they learned to collaborate with one another across fields and, in the end, produced a new discourse of practical reason. (From the Publisher)