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Cultivating virtue in the university / edited by Jonathan Brant, Edward Brooks and Michael Lamb.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College administrators--Professional ethics.
- College administrators.
- Education, Higher--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Education, Higher.
- Universities and colleges--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Universities and colleges.
- Universities and colleges--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- 'Cultivating Virtue in the University' offers insights into why educating character might be an important aim for universities and how institutions might integrate it in an increasingly global and pluralistic age. It will interest scholars, faculty, staff, and administrators considering whether they might want to integrate character into their institutions as well as public audiences eager to explore the purpose of the university at a time when the future of higher education is under intense debate.
- Contents:
- Virtue and the history of the modern American university / Julie Reuben
- Virtue, the German university, and the limits of critique / Chad Wellmon
- Developing virtue in emerging adults: perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, and sociology / Brian A. Williams
- The eclipse of virtue in the university and wider society / Onora O'Neill
- Can theology help? / Nigel Biggar
- Seven strategies from cultivating virtue in the university / Michael Lamb et al.
- Closing the character gap: some ideas from philosophy and psychology / Christian B. Miller
- The beneficial effects of cultivating gratitude in the university / Blaire Morgan and Liz Gulliford
- Forming virtuous character: perspectives from psychology and Christian theology / Joanna Collicutt
- Cultivating virtue by reading Jane Austen / Jessica Richard
- The decolonial virtues of ethnospeculative fiction / Paula M. L. Moya and Lesley Larkin.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-759910-9
- 0-19-759908-7
- 0-19-759909-5
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