Review of Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education, by Chris Higgins
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Undeclared—a volume consisting of three major essays linked by shorter interludes—addresses a single question: What would it mean for higher education to take human formation seriously?
Author Biography
Leonard Waks, Qufu Normal University
Leonard J. Waks is professor emeritus of educational leadership at Temple University. He has been distinguished professor of educational studies at Hangzhou Normal University from 2018-2024 and is now distinguished professor of education at Qufu Normal University. Waks attended the University of Wisconsin (PhD philosophy, 1968) and taught philosophy at Purdue University and Stanford University. He taught educational studies at Temple University and earned an EdD in psycho-educational processes from Temple in 1984. He is the author of Education 2.0: The Learningweb Revolution and the Transformation of the School (2014), and The Evolution and Evaluation of Massive Open Online Courses: MOOCs in Motion (2016), as well as more than 120 scholarly articles and book chapters. He is a past president of the John Dewey Society and has been awarded the Dewey Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is founding editor of the journal Dewey Studies. He is editor of the book Listening to Teach: Beyond Didactic Pedagogy (2015), and (with Andrea English) John Dewey's Democracy and Education: A Centennial Handbook (2017). Waks was co-founder and program chair of the National Technological Literacy Conferences (UCEA first prize for creative programming, 1985), co-director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for College Teachers on Rethinking Technology: Philosophy of Technology since 1945 (1996).
References
Marrou, H.-I. (1956). A history of education in antiquity (G. Lamb, Trans.). University of Wisconsin Press. (Original work published 1948.)
Meiklejohn, A. (1932). The experimental college. Harper & Brothers.
Tussman, J. (1969). Experiment at Berkeley. Oxford University Press.
[Book reviewed] Higgins, C. (2024). Undeclared: A philosophy of formative higher education. MIT Press. https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5780/UndeclaredA-Philosophy-of-Formative-Higher
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