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- catalog abstract ""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." "A wide variety of voices are heard in Allan's conversation about the nature and meaning of an education canon, including philosophers Aristotle, Descartes, Arthur Lovejoy, Hannah Arendt, Spengler, Emerson, Lyotard, and Rorty. Contemporary voices include Eva Brann, Charles Anderson, Francis Oakley, Martha Nussbaum, Gerald Graff, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Bill Readings."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b13244982.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""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." "A wide variety of voices are heard in Allan's conversation about the nature and meaning of an education canon, including philosophers Aristotle, Descartes, Arthur Lovejoy, Hannah Arendt, Spengler, Emerson, Lyotard, and Rorty. Contemporary voices include Eva Brann, Charles Anderson, Francis Oakley, Martha Nussbaum, Gerald Graff, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Bill Readings."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Crumbling cathedrals -- Content canonists -- Procedural canonists -- Anti-canonists -- Relative canonists -- Canonical dynamics -- Canonical dialectics -- Pragmatic canonists -- Education for a democracy -- Religious education -- Education for our common good -- Cathedral ruins -- Constructive pragmatics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-238) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 244 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0791459896".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "379.1/99 22".
- catalog subject "Canon (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Education, Higher Curricula United States.".
- catalog subject "LB2361.5 .A36 2004".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism and education United States.".
- catalog subject "Pragmatism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Crumbling cathedrals -- Content canonists -- Procedural canonists -- Anti-canonists -- Relative canonists -- Canonical dynamics -- Canonical dialectics -- Pragmatic canonists -- Education for a democracy -- Religious education -- Education for our common good -- Cathedral ruins -- Constructive pragmatics.".
- catalog title "Higher education in the making : pragmatism, Whitehead, and the canon / George Allan.".
- catalog type "text".