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Author:
Thompson, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1945- author.
Title:
Beyond reason and tolerance : the purpose and practice of higher education / Robert J. Thompson, Jr.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xiii, 205 pages ; 25 cm
Subject:
Education, Higher--Philosophy.
Education, Humanistic--United States.
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States.
Educational psychology--United States.
PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0199969787 (hardback)
9780199969784 (hardback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)859298556
LCCN:
2013028664
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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