General Education Sucks: So Teach the Great Identities

Autor/in	Glanzer, Perry L.
Titel	General Education Sucks: So Teach the Great Identities
Quelle	In: Journal of General Education, 69 (2020) 3-4, S.179-195 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-3667
Schlagwörter	General Education; Educational Quality; Ethics; Failure; Higher Education; Role of Education; Educational Change; Student Centered Learning; Capacity Building; Ethical Instruction; Citizenship Education; Moral Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ethik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsauftrag; Bildungsreform; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Moralische Entwicklung
Abstract	Although there are many reasons why one could consider current manifestations of general education a disaster area, this article focuses on its ethical failures. First, I will demonstrate the central importance of moral purposes to justifications for general education. Second, I will describe how the failure to connect the moral aims that originally animated general education to a complex understanding of our fundamental identity, alongside a general marginalization of moral discourse in the academy, has produced an inability to match the content of general education to the moral ends used to justify it. Rather than the incoherent approach to general education used today, I argue that general education should focus on the individual that the university is ultimately meant to serve--the student. Such a shift requires, as John Dewey noted, nothing short of a revolution. Higher education certainly provides students with tools but it provides students no direction as to what is worth building, I propose a general education that instructs students about, and cultivates capacities toward excellence in, the great human identities (e.g., neighbor, friend, citizen, family, steward of nature and culture, race, gender, etc.). (As Provided).
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