Question of Conscience
Subtitle: Higher Education and Personal Responsibility
Publisher: Institute of Education Press (IOE Press); IOE Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781782770268
Subjects: Education, higher, moral and ethical aspects; Education, higher, aims and objectives
Description: "David Watson explores the question of what higher education sets out to do for students through a number of lenses, including the 'evolutionary' stages of modern university history, the sense participants and observers try to make of them, and a collection of 'purposes,' or intended personal transformations. The resulting combinations are clustered, around major questions about the role of universities for their students, and in society at large. He concludes by testing claims about the role of higher education in developing varieties of personal responsibility. This book identifies and explores how varied these claims have been over the long history of the higher enterprise, but also how strong and determined they invariably are."--Publisher description.