Beyond the modern university toward a constructive postmodern university /
Beginning with the idea that the primary objective of higher education should be to make the world a better place by promoting social justice and environmental sustainability, Ford (humanities, Northern Arizona U.
| Main Author: | Ford, Marcus Peter, 1950- |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
2002.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (x, 133 pages) |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 A Social History of the University; Chapter 2 The Modern Research University and the Loss of Intellectual Coherence; Chapter 3 A Brief Overview of Western Thought and Its Implications for the Social and the Natural World; Chapter 4 The Philosophy of Organism: An Alternative Worldview; Chapter 5 Some Aspects of a Postmodern University; Chapter 6 Getting There; Index.