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The Relevance of Higher Education
Exploring a Contested Notion
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2013
Summary
Most statements today about higher education begin with the assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant, however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental. Relevance may be a true standard of judgment, but it does not stand by itself. Assuming higher education should be relevant, the question emerges, relevant to what? Why? How? At what costs? And, relevant in what sense? These are some of the central questions animating this study.
The Relevance of Higher Education: Exploring a Contested Notion, edited by Timothy L. Simpson examines the relevance of higher education by bringing together the work of historians, political scientists, and educational philosophers. The contributors probe the meaning of relevance in its many guises, providing an historical and philosophical account of the roots of this concept and its impact on the institution of higher education. Furthermore, The Relevance of Higher Education provides a critical evaluation of the impact of relevance on our understanding of the political and economic relationship between higher education and society. This study suggests views of relevance that could guide the future of higher education. By providing penetrating analysis, this text thoroughly explores relevance and its underlying assumptions, potential implications and long-lasting effects on higher education and society. The Relevance of Higher Education provides the tools necessary to develop a rich framework for understanding relevance and its impact on higher education and society.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8252-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8253-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
221
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 A Philosophy of Prudence and the Purpose of Higher Education Today No access
2 Relevance in Higher Education No access
3 The Expanding Circuit of Life No access
4 Virtue, Happiness, and Balance No access
5 Toward a Neo-Perennialist Philosophy of Liberal Education No access
6 Academic Freedom and the Role of the Humanities No access
7 The University and the Polis in an Age of Relevance No access
8 Order and Educational Relevance No access
9 American Democracy and Liberal Education in an Era of “Relevance” No access
10 The Social Relevance of Egoism and Perfectionism No access
11 Irrelevance is Not an Option No access
12 Institutional Diversity and the Future of American Higher Education No access
