Question of Conscience

"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.

Year

2013

Language

English

Publisher

Institute of Education Press (IOE Press)

Editions

1

Pages

172

ISBN

9781782770268

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