Ethics At The Heart Of Higher Education

Author : C. R. Crespo,Rita Kirk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532690488

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Ethics at the Heart of Higher Education by C. R. Crespo,Rita Kirk Pdf

Today’s college students have more knowledge available to them than can be absorbed; mastery of a subject area creates siloes where nearly every course is tailored to comprehending subject matter that may be outdated before they graduate. But learning is more than subject-matter expertise. Our fast-paced environment requires instantaneous reactions to complex questions. Our instant-messaging age champions quick response over reflection or thought—even the president governs by Twitter. Yet the ethical dilemmas are no less complex than the subject matter; cyber security, prison reform, labor rights, abortion, artificial intelligence, or gun laws are common table topics over lunch. Struggling through that complexity is central to understanding its implications for our culture. This book brings together some of the leading ethicists in the country to consider the rightful place of ethics in the university today. The authors make the case that higher education has a special duty to empower students to cultivate their character, ethically assess situations, and prepare them for an increasingly complex world. With contributions from: Mary Camp Alexander Cole Charles E. Curran Robert J. Howell D. Stephen Long Robin Lovin Richard O. Mason William F. May Thomas Wm. Mayo John Sadler

Author : Paul Gibbs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319577838

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The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of Higher Education by Paul Gibbs Pdf

This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society. It reflects a balancing of the instrumentalization of higher education as a mode of employment training and enhances the notion of the students’ well-being being at the core of the university mission. Compassion is examined in this volume as a weaving of diverse cultures and beliefs into a way of recognizing that diversity through a common good offers a way of preparing students and staff for a complex and anxious world. This book provides theoretical and practical discussions of compassion in higher education, it draws contributors from around the world and offers illustrations of compassion in action through a number of international cases studies..

Author : Michael D. Beaty,Douglas V. Henry
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781932792942

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The Schooled Heart by Michael D. Beaty,Douglas V. Henry Pdf

The Schooled Heart addresses a basic question about the nature of the university: should moral education figure among the university's purposes? This volume offers an affirmative response to that question. A central purpose of the university is the moral formation of students--what Beaty and Henry call the schooling of the heart.

Author : Parker J. Palmer,Arthur Zajonc,Megan Scribner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470487907

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The Heart of Higher Education by Parker J. Palmer,Arthur Zajonc,Megan Scribner Pdf

A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education. From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this call to revisit the roots and reclaim the vision of higher education. The Heart of Higher Education proposes an approach to teaching and learning that honors the whole human being—mind, heart, and spirit—an essential integration if we hope to address the complex issues of our time. The book offers a rich interplay of analysis, theory, and proposals for action from two educators and writers who have contributed to developing the field of integrative education over the past few decades. Presents Parker Palmer’s powerful response to critics of holistic learning and Arthur Zajonc’s elucidation of the relationship between science, the humanities, and the contemplative traditions Explores ways to take steps toward making colleges and universities places that awaken the deepest potential in students, faculty, and staff Offers a practical approach to fostering renewal in higher education through collegiality and conversation The Heart of Higher Education is for all who are new to the field of holistic education, all who want to deepen their understanding of its challenges, and all who want to practice and promote this vital approach to teaching and learning on their campuses.

Author : Jon Nixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134309931

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Towards the Virtuous University by Jon Nixon Pdf

Written for higher education academics, staff developers, policy makers and leaders, this book aims to tackle a subject that is at the heart of higher education today: the nature of a "good university".

Author : Bruce Macfarlane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134311194

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Teaching with Integrity by Bruce Macfarlane Pdf

This is a book about the ethics of teaching in the context of higher education. While many books focus on the broader socially ethical topics of widening participation and promoting equal opportunities, this unique book concentrates specifically on the lecturer's professional responsibilities. It covers the real-life, messy, everyday moral dilemmas that confront university teachers when dealing with students and colleagues - whether arising from facilitated discussion in the classroom, deciding whether it is fair to extend a deadline, investigating suspected plagiarism or dealing with complaints. Bruce Macfarlane analyses the pros and cons of prescriptive professional codes of practice employed by many universities and proposes the active development of professional virtues over bureaucratic recommendations. The material is presented in a scholarly, yet accessible style, and case examples are used throughout to encourage a practical, reflective approach. Teaching With Integrity seeks to bridge the pedagogic gap currently separating the debate about teaching and learning in higher education from the broader social and ethical environment in which it takes place.

Author : Alexander Bradley Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0806128577

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Ethics in Higher Education by Alexander Bradley Holmes Pdf

A former university regent presents seven fictional cases that invite readers to delve into the heart of ethical and moral ambiguity surrounding issues in higher education. The friendly vendor presents a case of financial conflicts, the helpful regent one of academic conflicts, the proud father pers

Author : George M. Robinson,Janice Moulton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780595365920

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Ethical Problems in Higher Education by George M. Robinson,Janice Moulton Pdf

The Ivory Tower Myth suggests that the world of higher education has no moral problems. Unlike ethical conflicts in business, politics and medicine, ethical problems in higher education receive little publicity. But devotion to the pursuit of knowledge does not ensure ethical behavior. Power, competition, pressure and lust for recognition create moral conflicts. Some are unique to higher education but many are common to the world off-campus. This book uses ethical theories as a tool to analyze real examples from our colleges and universities. Topics include: academic freedom, plagiarism, cheating, research fraud, equal opportunity, evaluation, tenure, student-faculty relationships.

Author : Divya Singh,Christoph Stückelberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 2889311651

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Ethics in higher education : values-driven leaders for the future by Divya Singh,Christoph Stückelberger Pdf

Author : Daniel Callahan,Sissela Bok
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461331384

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Ethics Teaching in Higher Education by Daniel Callahan,Sissela Bok Pdf

A concern for the ethical instruction and formation of students has always been a part of American higher education. Yet that concern has by no means been uniform or free from controversy. The centrality of moral philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum during the mid-19th Century gave way later during that era to the first signs of increasing specialization of the disciplines. By the middle of the 20th Century, instruction in ethics had, by and large, become confined almost exclusively to departments of philosophy and religion. Efforts to introduce ethics teaching in the professional schools and elsewhere in the university often met with indifference or outright hostility. The past decade has seen a remarkable resurgence of the interest in the teaching of ethics, at both the undergraduate and the professional school levels. Beginning in 1977, The Hastings Center, with the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, undertook a system atic study of the state of the teaching of ethics in American higher education.

Author : Vivienne Bozalek,Michalinos Zembylas,Joan C. Tronto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000218190

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Posthuman and Political Care Ethics for Reconfiguring Higher Education Pedagogies by Vivienne Bozalek,Michalinos Zembylas,Joan C. Tronto Pdf

This book makes an important contribution to ongoing debates about the epistemological, ethical, ontological and political implications of relational ethics in higher education. By furthering theoretical developments on the ethics of care and critical posthumanism, it speaks to contemporary concerns for more socially just possibilities and enriched understandings of higher education pedagogies. The book considers how the political ethics of care and posthuman/new feminist materialist ethics can be diffracted through each other and how this can have value for thinking about higher education pedagogies. It includes ideas on ethics which push those boundaries that have previously served educational researchers and proposes new ways of conceptualising relational ethics. Chapters consider the entangled connections of the linguistic, social, material, ethical, political and biological in relation to higher education pedagogies. This topical and transdisciplinary book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of posthuman and care ethics, social justice in education, higher education, and educational theory and policy.

Author : Beverly A. Burnell,Heidi Schnackenberg
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781482206791

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The Ethics of Cultural Competence in Higher Education by Beverly A. Burnell,Heidi Schnackenberg Pdf

This new book presents both research (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-design) and conceptual chapters about the ethical factors to be considered in teaching, administration, and professional practice in higher education settings. The book includes recent research-based ideas in the field of higher education. Topics include cultural competencies for higher education faculty, professionals, and administrators, such as use of language in communicating concepts to students for whom English is not a first language, avoiding imposition of bias, encouraging exposition of perspective, and ethical practices for professionals working with the diverse environments and populations in higher education settings. This work is particularly important since becoming informed on the latest approaches and ideologies is an essential component of both professional preparation and continuing professional development of faculty, professionals, and administrators in higher education. Currently, education practitioners struggle with finding time for professional development and ways to inform themselves of the latest research. This volume will help education practitioners keep abreast of the most important recent research. As college student populations and environments continually change, so must the practices of the professionals who work with them. This volume highlights some of the most recent practices and perspectives in ethics and cultural competence for all college and university personnel. This volume is unique and valuable because other books have addressed culturally competent ethical practices for discrete professions within higher education, no single work has a collection of writings about ethical and culturally competent practices for a variety of the professions in higher education.

Author : Elizabeth Kiss,J. Peter Euben
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780822391593

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Debating Moral Education by Elizabeth Kiss,J. Peter Euben Pdf

After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and morality has been met with skepticism, suspicion, and even outright rejection from both inside and outside the academy. In this collection, renowned scholars of philosophy, politics, and religion debate the role of ethics in the university, investigating whether universities should proactively cultivate morality and ethics, what teaching ethics entails, and what moral education should accomplish. The essays quickly open up to broader questions regarding the very purpose of a university education in modern society. Editors Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben survey the history of ethics in higher education, then engage with provocative recent writings by Stanley Fish in which he argues that universities should not be involved in moral education. Stanley Hauerwas responds, offering a theological perspective on the university’s purpose. Contributors look at the place of politics in moral education; suggest that increasingly diverse, multicultural student bodies are resources for the teaching of ethics; and show how the debate over civic education in public grade-schools provides valuable lessons for higher education. Others reflect on the virtues and character traits that a moral education should foster in students—such as honesty, tolerance, and integrity—and the ways that ethical training formally and informally happens on campuses today, from the classroom to the basketball court. Debating Moral Education is a critical contribution to the ongoing discussion of the role and evolution of ethics education in the modern liberal arts university. Contributors. Lawrence Blum, Romand Coles, J. Peter Euben, Stanley Fish, Michael Allen Gillespie, Ruth W. Grant, Stanley Hauerwas, David A. Hoekema, Elizabeth Kiss, Patchen Markell, Susan Jane McWilliams, Wilson Carey McWilliams, J. Donald Moon, James Bernard Murphy, Noah Pickus, Julie A. Reuben, George Shulman, Elizabeth V. Spelman

Author : Paul Gibbs,Jill Jameson,Alex Elwick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030159702

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Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty by Paul Gibbs,Jill Jameson,Alex Elwick Pdf

This deliberately wide-ranging book addresses issues related to trust, compassion, well-being, grace, dignity and integrity. It explores these within the context of higher education, giving existential and empirical accounts of how these moral duties can be expressed within the academy and why they ought to be. The chapters range from values used in the marketing and management of institutions to their realisation in therapeutic and teacher training spaces. The book opens with a specific introduction which positions the work and outlines the context of duties and obligations at play. This is followed by two distinct but related sections including chapters on theoretical issues, organisational practices and personal praxis. The first part is more abstract and theoretical, the second locates the values discussed within the practices of the university. In doing so the book encompasses a wide range of issues from multi-disciplinary and geo-political regions. The authors are a mixture of world-leading authorities on values in higher education and earlier career researchers, who are nonetheless equally passionate contributors. This mix gives the book vibrancy and offers insight which appeals to both an academic and managerial readership.

Author : Richard Ostrander
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Christian universities and colleges
ISBN : 1610751795

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Head, Heart, and Hand: Jbu and Modern Evangelical Higher Education (c) by Richard Ostrander Pdf

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Starting from Scratch, 1879-1934 -- 1. The "Laughing Evangelist"--2. Creating a New Kind of College -- 3. From John E. Brown College to John Brown University -- Part Two: Achieving Permanence, 1935-1962 -- 4. College Life in the Early Years -- 5. Foundations for Growth -- 6. Emerging from the Founder's Shadow -- Part Three: Pursuing Excellence, 1963-2000 -- 7. Decades of Turmoil and Transition -- 8. A Third Brown Presidency -- 9. New Leadership, New Directions -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index