Higher Education in the Making
Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
262 pages
978-0-7914-8555-2 (ISBN)
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Argues for a pragmatic canon always in need of renovation.
George Allan argues that the so-called "culture wars" in higher education are the result of the dogmatic and unyielding certainty that both canonists and anti-canonists bring to any discussion of how best to organize an undergraduate curriculum. He then proposes a middle way. Drawing from William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead, he contrasts the absolutist claims of both canonists and anti-canonists with a fallibilist approach and argues for a more pragmatic canon that is normative and always in need of renovation.
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George Allan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form, published by SUNY Press.
George Allan argues that the so-called "culture wars" in higher education are the result of the dogmatic and unyielding certainty that both canonists and anti-canonists bring to any discussion of how best to organize an undergraduate curriculum. He then proposes a middle way. Drawing from William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead, he contrasts the absolutist claims of both canonists and anti-canonists with a fallibilist approach and argues for a more pragmatic canon that is normative and always in need of renovation.
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George Allan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form, published by SUNY Press.
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George Allan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form, published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Series Introduction
1. Crumbling Cathedrals
2. Content Canonists
3. Procedural Canonists
4. Anti-Canonists
5. Relative Canonists
6. Canonical Dynamics
7. Canonical Dialectics
8. Pragmatic Canonists
9. Education for a Democracy
10. Religious Education
11. Education for Our Common Good
12. Cathedral Ruins
13. Constructive Pragmatics
Works Cited
Note on Supporting Center
Index
SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought
