{"product_id":"undeclared-isbn-9780262547499","title":"Undeclared","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn imaginative tour of the contemporary university as it could be: a place to discover self-knowledge, meaning, and purpose.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat if college were not just a means of acquiring credentials, but a place to pursue our formation as whole persons striving to lead lives of meaning and purpose? In \u003ci\u003eUndeclared\u003c\/i\u003e, Chris Higgins confronts the contemporary university in a bid to reclaim a formative mission for higher education. In a series of searching essays and pointed interludes, Higgins challenges us to acknowledge how far our practices have drifted from our ideals, asking: What would it look like to build a college from the ground up to support self-discovery and personal integration?  What does it mean to be a public university, and are there any left? How can the humanities help the job-ified university begin to take vocation seriously?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCutting through the underbrush of received ideas, Higgins follows the insight where it leads, clearing a path from the corporate multiversity to the renaissance in higher education that was Black Mountain College and back again. Along the way, we tour a campus bent on becoming a shopping mall, accompany John Dewey through a midlife crisis, and witness the first \"happening.” Through diverse and grounded philosophical engagements, \u003ci\u003eUndeclared\u003c\/i\u003e assembles the resources to expand the contemporary educational imagination.Preface ix\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003ePrologue xvii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCampus Tour \u003c\/i\u003e1\u003cbr\u003eSOUL ACTION: THE SEARCH FOR INTEGRITY IN GENERAL EDUCATION 13\u003cbr\u003eThe Formidable Task of Formation 13\u003cbr\u003eRoots and Branches 27\u003cbr\u003eScattering Requirements 46\u003cbr\u003eA Skeleton Faculty 60\u003cbr\u003eChest Knowledge 71\u003cbr\u003eCoda 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Student Orientation \u003c\/i\u003e93\u003cbr\u003eWIDE AWAKE: AESTHETIC EDUCATION AT BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 109\u003cbr\u003eThe Road to Black Mountain 109\u003cbr\u003eAn Allegory of Arrival 124\u003cbr\u003eWho Is the Formative Educator? 141\u003cbr\u003eTheater and Wings 157\u003cbr\u003eLearning Here and Now 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublic Hearing \u003c\/i\u003e189\u003cbr\u003eJOB PROSPECTS: VOCATIONAL FORMATION AS HUMANE LEARNING 201\u003cbr\u003eLife in Panem 201\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Vocational Question 207\u003cbr\u003eWorking with Integrity 220\u003cbr\u003eA New Organ 236\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Butler 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes 265\u003cbr\u003eIndex 377“Amongst the searing indictments of university education that extend from Allan Bloom, \u003ci\u003eUndeclared\u003c\/i\u003e’s account of personal formation stands out. Luminous examples, scholarly depth, and penetrating wit answer here to democratic urgencies of wider educational need.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Paul Standish, UCL Institute of Education; coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Universities We Need\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUndeclared\u003c\/i\u003e gives fresh meaning to what many of us believe but had not articulated with such precision and originality—why the humanities matter for college students, and why humanities-educated college students matter for the world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rachel Wahl, University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development; author of \u003ci\u003eJust Violence: Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eChris Higgins is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Formative Education in Boston College's Lynch School of Education and Human Development, where he directs the Transformative Educational Studies program. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Life of Teaching\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304732086501,"sku":"NP9780262547499","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547499.jpg?v=1767743205","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/undeclared-isbn-9780262547499","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}