On education, formation, citizenship and the lost purpose of learning / Joseph Clair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clair, Joseph Allan, 1980- author.

Series:

Reading Augustine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Augustine.

Education (Christian theology).

Education, Humanistic.

Education, Higher--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

x, 128 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2018.

Summary:

The Reading Augustine series presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The looming crisis in higher education appears to be a matter of soaring costs and crushing student debt, but the problem is actually much deeper. It is a crisis of soul; a question of the very purpose of learning and the type of people that our educational system produces. Today, in the age of academic hyper-specialization and professional knowledge, the moral and spiritual purposes of learning have been eclipsed by a shallow view of career and success. On Education, Formation, Citizenship, and the Lost Purpose of Learning turns to the influential figure Augustine of Hippo to explore how he saved the liberal arts at the end of the Roman Empire and how his inspiring vision can do the same for higher education today. It offers a roadmap for reviving the soul of education - presenting concrete ways that the intellectual practices and economic enterprise of learning can lead once more to a fulfilled life of knowing God and loving others.

Contents:

The lost purpose of learning

Education and the order of love

The art of reading

Citizenship

A way forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Clair, Joseph Allan, 1980- On education, formation, citizenship and the lost purpose of learning.

ISBN:

9781501326158

1501326155

9781501326165

1501326163

OCLC:

1001251088