Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon

by George Allan

George Allan argues that the so-called "culture wars" in higher education are the result of the dogmatic and unyielding certainty that both canonists and anti-canonists bring to any discussion of how best to organize an undergraduate curriculum. He then proposes a middle way. Drawing from William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead, he contrasts the absolutist claims of both canonists and anti-canonists with a fallibilist approach and argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791459896
• ISBN13: 9780791459898
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.5"