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Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher EducationOpen Access

By
Chris Higgins
Chris Higgins

Chris Higgins is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Formative Education in Boston College's Lynch School of Education and Human Development, where he directs the Transformative Educational Studies program. He is the author of The Good Life of Teaching.

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The MIT Press
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15228.001.0001
ISBN electronic:
9780262377607
Publication date:
2024

Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Prologue
  8. Campus Tour
  9. Soul Action: The Search for Integrity in General Education
    1. The Formidable Task of Formation
    2. Roots and Branches
    3. Scattering Requirements
    4. A Skeleton Faculty
    5. Chest Knowledge
    6. Coda
  10. New Student Orientation
  11. Wide Awake: Aesthetic Education at Black Mountain College
    1. The Road to Black Mountain
    2. An Allegory of Arrival
    3. Who Is the Formative Educator?
    4. Theater and Wings
    5. Learning Here and Now
  12. Public Hearing
  13. Job Prospects: Vocational Formation as Humane Learning
    1. Life in Panem
    2. The Great Vocational Question
    3. Working with Integrity
    4. A New Organ
    5. The Last Butler
  14. Index
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