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The Dismantling of Moral Education - How Higher Education Reduced the Human Identity (Hardcover)
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The Dismantling of Moral Education - How Higher Education Reduced the Human Identity (Hardcover)
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American educators have consistently splintered our humanity into
pieces throughout higher education's history. Although key leaders
of America's colonial colleges shared a common functional
understanding of humans as made in God's image with a robust but
vulnerable moral conscience, latter moral philosophers did not
build upon that foundation. Instead, they turned to shards of our
identity to help students find their moral bearings. They sought to
create ladies and gentlemen, honorable students, and finally, good
professionals. As a result, fragmentation ensued as university
leaders pitted these identity fragments against each other inciting
a war of attrition. As the war of identities raged, its effects
spilled out beyond the bounds of the curriculum into the
co-curricular dimension that struggled with moving beyond being en
loco parentis. The major identity they cultivated was that of being
a political citizen. Thus, the major identity and story of
students' lives became the American political story of
democracy-what I call Meta-Democracy. In higher education guided by
Meta-Democracy, students lose their autonomy to administrators who
reduce the student identities they try to develop along with the
range of virtues that comprise the good life. The Dismantling of
Moral Education: How Higher Education Reduced the Human Identity
explains why and how we arrived at diminishing ourselves.
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