| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"Beyond Reason and Tolerance argues that to prepare students to engage political, ethnic, and religious differences, higher education must adopt a developmental model for a formative and liberal undergraduate education as a process of growth involving empathy as well as reasoning, values as well as knowledge, and identity as well as competencies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- 1. American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century -- 2. Emerging Adulthood: A Developmental Science Perspective -- 3. Personal Epistemology -- 4. Empathy -- 5. Identity and the Process of Self-Authorship -- 6. Campus Culture: Developing the Capacities to Constructively Engage Difference -- 7. Providing a Formative Undergraduate Liberal Education. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Philosophy.
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Education, Higher -- Philosophy. |
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Education, Humanistic -- United States.
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Education, Humanistic. |
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United States. |
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives. |
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects. |
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Educational psychology -- United States.
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Educational psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thompson, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1945- Beyond reason and tolerance. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, USA, [2014] 9780199969784 (DLC) 2013028664 (OCoLC)859298556 |
| ISBN |
9780199969791 (electronic book) |
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0199969795 (electronic book) |
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9780199969784 |
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0199969787 |
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