Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Role of the Modern University

by Julie A. Reuben, J. Peter Euben, Noah M.J. Pickus, et al.

Book Overview

After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and morality has been met with skepticism, suspicion, and even outright rejection from both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822346168
• ISBN13: 9780822346166
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.2"