Revisar OPCIONES
In the tradition of liberal individualism, Kadish (professor emeritus, Case Western Reserve) presents a sustained argument for emphasizing effectiveness, self-formation, and coherence as the cardinal criteria for policy-making in higher education. He assails both historical "intellectualistic" tendencies that have restricted the academy to leisured class interests and contemporary "productive" and "consumptive" proclivities that define scholarly life according to market demands. In the final analysis, Kadish is more concerned with ethical integration and the refinement of individual freedom rather than either a "cloistered" liberal arts curriculum or any technologized forms of specialization. His dominant portrayal of rational and aesthetic self-interest, however, leaves less room for more focused communitarian interests and movements towards social reconstruction in higher education. Graduate level.-J. L. DeVitis, SUNY at Binghamton
Library Journal Review
Kadish (philosophy, Case Western Univ.) argues that the mission of higher education should include the development of ethical individuals who can actively participate in the fast-changing and interconnected worlds of today and tomorrow. He rejects the notion that the purpose of higher education should be to mollycoddle the privileged class and produce graduates for the market economy. Instead, he asserts that the university should be more involved with real life through active learning experiences. Graduates with ethics, Kadish believes, are more important to society than a passel of cultured bodies or technological automatons. This book, while having a different intent, is a good corollary to Derek Bok's Universities and the Future of America ( LJ 9/1/90). This is not a volume that will be easily understood by all; it is intended for educated policy makers, scholars both within and without academia, professors and advanced graduate students of higher education.-- Scott Johnson, Meridian Community Coll. Lib., Miss. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
