Full Description
The essays in Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education: The Just University discuss diverse ways that Paul Ricoeur's work provides hopeful insight and necessary provocation that should inform the task and mission of the modern university in the changing landscape of Higher Education. This volume gathers interdisciplinary scholars seeking to reestablish the place of justice as the central function of higher education in the twenty-first century. The contributors represent diverse backgrounds, including teachers, scholars, and administrators from R1 institutions, seminary and divinity schools as well as undergraduate teaching colleges. This collection, edited by Daniel Boscaljon and Jeffrey F. Keuss, offers critical and practical visions for the renewal of higher education. The first part of the book provides an internal examination of the university system and details how Ricoeur's thinking assists on pragmatics from syllabus design to final exams to daily teaching. The second portion of the book examines the Just University's role as a social institution within the broader cultural world and looks at how Ricoeur's description of values informs how the university works relative to religious belief, prisons, and rural poverty.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface: Dreaming of the Just University in an Age of Crisis
Daniel Boscaljon and Jeffrey F. Keuss
Introduction: Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of a Just University
Daniel Boscaljon and Jeffrey F. Keuss
Part 1: The Just University as Instructional Space
Chapter 1: The Agon of the Summoned Self in Ricoeur's Late Philosophy of Religion
Mark I. Wallace
Chapter 2: Reading Ricoeur Together: Interpretive Work and Surplus Meaning in a Just Pedagogy
Charles A. Gillespie
Chapter 3: Practical Formation: Teaching Critical Thinking via Ricoeur's Hermeneutical Model
Laura Schmidt Roberts
Chapter 4: Ricoeur and Transferable Skills
Glenn Whitehouse
Chapter 5: Fallible Pedagogy: How to Balance Liberation and Evaluation with Compassion
Daniel Boscaljon
Chapter 6: Oneself as Another and The Argonauts: An Attempt at Interpretive Justice
Richard A. Rosengarten
Chapter 7: Embodied Pedagogy: Reflections on Becoming Oneself
Verna Marina Ehret
Part 2: The Just University as a Social Space
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