| Document Type | : | BL |
| Record Number | : | 102695 |
| Doc. No | : | b59892 |
| Main Entry | : | Thompson, Robert J., (Robert Joseph),1945- |
| Title & Author | : | Beyond reason and tolerance :the purpose and practice of higher education /Robert J. Thompson, Jr. |
| Page. NO | : | xiii, 205 pages ;25 cm |
| ISBN | : | 9780199969784 |
| | 0199969787 |
| Bibliographies/Indexes | : | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents | : | 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. |
| Abstract | : | "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"-- |
| Subject | : | Education, Higher-- Philosophy. |
| Subject | : | Education, Humanistic-- United States. |
| Subject | : | Education, Higher-- Aims and objectives-- United States. |
| Subject | : | Education, Higher-- Social aspects-- United States. |
| Subject | : | Educational psychology-- United States. |
| Subject | : | PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent. |
| Dewey Classification | : | 378 |
| LC Classification | : | LB2322.2.T46 2014 |
| Parallel Title | : | Purpose and practice of higher education |