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Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon
By George Allan
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By George Allan
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Argues for a pragmatic canon always in need of renovation.
George Allan argues that the so-called "culture wars" in higher education are the result of the dogmatic and unyielding certainty that both canonists and anti-canonists bring to any discussion of how best to organize an undergraduate curriculum. He then proposes a middle way. Drawing from William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead, he contrasts the absolutist claims of both canonists and anti-canonists with a fallibilist a...