Christianity and Moral Identity in Higher Education [Hardcover]

This book offers examples from both Christian and secular democratic institutions of higher education and then responds to possible criticisms about how moral education in a comprehensive humanist moral tradition may short change diversity, autonomy and critical thinking.PART I: MORAL EDUCATION IN CONTEMPORARY HIGHER EDUCATION Introduction: A Less than Human Education Moral Development and Moral Order Searching for Common, Tradition-Free Approaches to Moral Education: A Brief History Addressing the Moral Quandary Facing Contemporary Higher Education: Moral Education in Postmodern Universities PART II: A MORE HUMAN EDUCATION: MORAL FORMATION IN A SPECIFIC TRADITION The Levels of Constrained Identity Agreement Used To Advance Moral Education Case Study I: Moral Education in Secular Colleges and Universities Case Study II: Moral Education among Christian Colleges and Universities Moral Order and Moral Education within Comprehensive Moral Traditions * PART III: MORAL EDUCATION AND LIBERAL EDUCATION * Comparing Types and Levels of Constrained Identity Agreement Diversity and Autonomy and the Different Levels of Constrained Identity Agreement PART IV: STRENGTHENING MORAL EDUCATION IN A PARTICULAR TRADITION Christian Humanism and Christ-Centered Education: The Redemptive Development of?Humans and Human Creations A More Human Christian Education: An Exercise in Moral Imagination

Glanzer and Ream initiate a conversation desperately needed concerning how Christian colleges and universities might begin, as well as do something about, the moral formation of their students. One suspects the subject has been avoided or hidden in useless generalizations because few know how to do that kind of moral training. That is why this book is so important. Glanzer and Ream actually tell us what needs to be done. How refreshing. - Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University, USA

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