Exiles from Eden : Religion and the Academic Vocation in America.

By: Schwehn, Mark RMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1992Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (163 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780198023753Subject(s): College teachers -- United States -- Intellectual life | College teaching -- United States -- Philosophy | Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States | Universities and colleges -- United States -- ReligionGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exiles from Eden : Religion and the Academic Vocation in AmericaDDC classification: 277.3 | 378.12 LOC classification: LB1778.2 -- .S38 1993ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. The Academic Vocation -- 2. Communities of Learning -- 3. Spirited Inquiry -- 4. Questions and Considerations -- 5. Adams's Education -- 6. Conclusion: Adam's Exile -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: This essay argues that Max Weber and his contemporaries led higher education astray by stressing research - the making and transmitting of knowledge - at the expense of teaching moral character. The author calls instead for an education "spiritually grounded in and for thoughtfulness".
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. The Academic Vocation -- 2. Communities of Learning -- 3. Spirited Inquiry -- 4. Questions and Considerations -- 5. Adams's Education -- 6. Conclusion: Adam's Exile -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This essay argues that Max Weber and his contemporaries led higher education astray by stressing research - the making and transmitting of knowledge - at the expense of teaching moral character. The author calls instead for an education "spiritually grounded in and for thoughtfulness".

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