Identity Excellence - A Theory of Moral Expertise for Higher Education

While pursuing agreement in a pluralistic society, American higher education has reduced the human identities necessary for the moral formation it inherently provides. Consequently, it fails to supply moral expertise for living the good life. Identity Excellence addresses this problem by proposing an interdisciplinary theory of identity excellence.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Higher Education's Confusion about Moral Expertise
Part I. Understanding the Relationship between Moral Excellence and Identity
Chapter 1. Who Am I and Who Should I Become? The Philosophical and Sociological Frames
Chapter 2. The Most Important Ingredients for Moral Motivation: From the Sociological to the Philosophical, Psychological, and Moral Frames
Chapter 3. The Challenge of Ordering Our Multiple Identities for Excellence: Combining the Philosophical, Psychological, and Sociological Frames with Theology
Part II. The Problems with Contemporary Collegiate Moral Education: Using the Frames for Critical Analysis
Chapter 4. The Ethically Challenged Curriculum: General Education
Chapter 5. The Curricular Reduction of Ethics to Professional Ethics
Chapter 6. How Contemporary Student Affairs Diminishes Moral Education
Part III. The Pursuit of Human Flourishing through Identity Excellence
Chapter 7. Teaching Excellence in the Great Identities: A Revised Educational Frame
Chapter 8. Identity Prioritization and Integration for Excellence
Conclusion: The Humanizing Imago Dei University
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Perry L. Glanzer is professor of educational foundations at Baylor University and a resident scholar with Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. He has authored and edited fourteen books, including The Story of Moral Education: How Higher Education Reduced the Human Identity.

Product details

• Authors: Perry L. Glanzer, Glanzer Perry L.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781475865486
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-6548-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational strategies and policy, value formation;virtue;virtue epistemology;virtue theory