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BL
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102695
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b59892
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| Main Entry
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Thompson, Robert J., (Robert Joseph),1945-
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| Title & Author
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Beyond reason and tolerance : : the purpose and practice of higher education /\ Robert J. Thompson, Jr.
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xiii, 205 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780199969784
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: 0199969787
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Preface -- Chapter 1: American Higher Education in the 21st Century -- Chapter 2: Emerging Adulthood: A Developmental Science Perspective -- Chapter 3: Personal Epistemology -- Chapter 4: Empathy -- Chapter 5: Identity and the Process of Self-Authorship -- Chapter 6: Campus Culture: Developing the Capacities to Constructively Engage Difference -- Chapter 7: Providing a Formative Undergraduate Liberal Education -- References.
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| Abstract
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"Beyond Reason and Tolerance argues that to prepare students to engage political, ethnic, and religious differences, higher education must adopt a developmental model for a formative and liberal undergraduate education as a process of growth involving empathy as well as reasoning, values as well as knowledge, and identity as well as competencies"--
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Education, Higher-- Philosophy.
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Education, Humanistic-- United States.
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Education, Higher-- Aims and objectives-- United States.
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Education, Higher-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Educational psychology-- United States.
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PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent.
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| Dewey Classification
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378
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| LC Classification
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LB2322.2.T46 2014
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| Parallel Title
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Purpose and practice of higher education
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