Beyond Reason and Tolerance: The Purpose and Practice of Higher Education

by Robert J. Thompson and Robert J. Thompson Jr.

The major challenges facing higher education are often framed in terms of preparing students for life-long learning. Society's 21st century needs require civic-minded individuals who have the intellectual and personal capabilities to constructively engage political, ethnic, and religious differences, work effectively, and live together with many different kinds of people in a more global society. In this volume, Robert J. Thompson aims to influence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199969787
• ISBN13: 9780199969784
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"