Longing for Justice : : Higher Education and Democracy's Agenda / / Jennifer S. Simpson.
A timely and persuasive argument for Higher Education's obligations to our democratic society, Longing for Justice combines personal narrative with critical analysis to make the case for educational practices that connect to questions of democracy, justice, and the common good. Jennifer S. Simp...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Higher Education and Democracy's Agenda: Resisting "Streamlined" Education
- 2. Higher Education and the Social Contract: Considering the "We" of Public Life
- 3. Civic Engagement and Service Learning: The Burden of Liberal Norms
- 4. "What Do You Think? 41 Bullets?": The Relationship of the Subject and the Social
- 5. Liberal Norms and Questions of Practice: Education, Ethics, and Interests
- 6. Epistemological Architectures: Possibilities for Understanding the Social
- 7. The Work of the "We": Democracy's Agenda and Curricular and Pedagogical Possibilities
- Notes
- References
- Index