Identity Excellence

A Theory of Moral Expertise for Higher Education

AvPerry L. Glanzer

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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American higher education—historically and inherently—is a morally formative endeavor. Yet, in order to respond to America’s moral pluralism, higher education has increasingly taken a reductionistic approach to moral formation. Consequently, it abandoned the effort to supply students with moral expertise. Current approaches help students learn how to be excellent professionals and citizens, but they fail to provide the necessary tools for living the good life—in college and beyond.Identity Excellence: A Theory of Moral Expertise for Higher Education addresses this problem by setting forth a multi-disciplinary theory of moral expertise for fostering moral excellence in an array of important identities. To this end, it teases apart the essential elements of what it means to be excellent in an identity before discussing the philosophical, sociological, psychological, and educational processes necessary for students to internalize traditions of identity excellence as part of their own moral identities. Overall, the emergent theory exposes the shortcomings in contemporary general education, professional ethics, and co-curricular education.Finally, this book sets forth a bold but compelling vision for a more hopeful future for American higher education. As outlined within, such education involves teaching students’ excellence in the Great Identities, as well as how to prioritize and integrate their pursuit of identity excellence.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-08-10
Mått:152 x 220 x 10 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781475865486

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Perry L. Glanzer is professor of educational foundations at Baylor University and a resident scholar with Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. He has authored and edited fourteen books, including The Dismantling of Moral Education: How Higher Education Reduced the Human Identity.

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The moral vision of many universities today is limited and thin. This is evident in how they conceive of their ultimate aim or purpose. It is also evident in their curricula, pedagogical approaches, and student life programs. In Identity Excellence: A Theory of Moral Expertise for Higher Education, Perry L. Glanzer articulates an alternative moral vision for universities—one that is rich, provocative, complex, interdisciplinary, and humanizing. Clearly and engagingly structured and written, Glanzer’s book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the aims of higher education, and especially to those who believe a university education should be personally transformative.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Higher Education’s Confusion about Moral ExpertisePart I. Understanding the Relationship between Moral Excellence and IdentityChapter 1. Who Am I and Who Should I Become? The Philosophical and Sociological FramesChapter 2. The Most Important Ingredients for Moral Motivation: From the Sociological to the Philosophical, Psychological, and Moral FramesChapter 3. The Challenge of Ordering Our Multiple Identities for Excellence: Combining the Philosophical, Psychological, and Sociological Frames with TheologyPart II. The Problems with Contemporary Collegiate Moral Education: Using the Frames for Critical AnalysisChapter 4. The Ethically Challenged Curriculum: General EducationChapter 5. The Curricular Reduction of Ethics to Professional EthicsChapter 6. How Contemporary Student Affairs Diminishes Moral EducationPart III. The Pursuit of Human Flourishing through Identity ExcellenceChapter 7. Teaching Excellence in the Great Identities: A Revised Educational FrameChapter 8. Identity Prioritization and Integration for ExcellenceConclusion: The Humanizing Imago Dei UniversityBibliographyAbout the Author