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Author Wilshire, Bruce, 1932-2015.

Title The moral collapse of the university : professionalism, purity, and alienation / Bruce Wilshire.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [1990]
©1990
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 287 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series SUNY series in the philosophy of education
SUNY series in philosophy of education.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Alienation -- What is the educating act? -- Crisis of authority and identity : the inevitability of professionalism -- The professionalization of the university -- A specimen case of professionalizing a field of learning : philosophy -- Eccentricities and distortions of academic professionalism -- Academic professionalism as a veiled purification ritual -- Pollution phenomena : John Dewey's encounter with body-self -- Revolutionary thought of the early twentieth century : reintegrating self and world and a new foundation for humane knowledge -- The reactionary response of positivism : cementing purification, professionalism, segmentation in the university -- Recovering from positivism and reorganizing the university -- Reclaiming the vision of education : redefining definition, identity, gender.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
United States.
College teaching -- United States.
College teaching.
Professional socialization -- United States.
Professional socialization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wilshire, Bruce W. Moral collapse of the university. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1990 0791401960 (DLC) 89004455 (OCoLC)19511844
ISBN 0585063974 (electronic book)
9780585063973 (electronic book)

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