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Teach Them to Challenge Authority: Educating for Healthy Societies


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Eminent educator Greg Prince examines how colleges should set an example of behaviour to students in order to maximise their success. The author investigates both the national and international implications and reveals how these simple measures will revitalise not only the world of education but also wider society.'This book is about the purpose of education. It is about the complexity that arises from the premise that educational institutions should model the behaviour and values they seek to instil in their students and how this is essential to teaching students how to challenge authority and convention in appropriate, creative and constructive ways' - Greg Prince.Part memoir and part argumentative essay, "Teach Them to Challenge Authority" gets to the heart of what education should really be about. Drawing on decades of experience, the highly respected educator, Greg Prince, shows how colleges need to behave the way they want their students to if they are to have any degree of success.Moving seamlessly between his experience as President of Hampshire College and the broader, bigger picture made up of national and international issues, Prince demonstrates how putting this ostensibly simple proposition into practice can have radical consequences - not just for the world of education, but for society as a whole. This title includes contents such as: Introduction; Part I - Two View of Education; Engagement versus Neutrality Protecting or Liberating Students; Part II - Mirrors for America, Looking Abroad; The University of Natal - Modelling Behaviour We Expect of Students; The European Humanities University - Challenging Authority; The Asian University for Women - Living Up to Expectations; Singapore Management University - Teaching Critical Thinking The American University in Bulgaria, Speaking to Authority; Part III - What Education Should be About; The Engaged University; and, Listening to Students.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Part I: Two View of Education Engagement versus Neutrality Protecting or Liberating Students Part II: Mirrors for America: Looking Abroad The University of Natal: Modelling Behaviour We Expect of Students The European Humanities University: Challenging Authority The Asian University for Women: Living Up to Expectations Singapore Management University: Teaching Critical Thinking The American University in Bulgaria: Speaking to Authority Part III: What Education Should be About The Engaged University Listening to Students

About the Author :
Gregory S. Prince Jr has just retired as President of Hampshire College.

Review :
The first intelligent book written about what the educational process has the capacity to accomplish.   Andrew Sigler, former CEO of Champion International and former member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College During a lifetime in higher education Gregory Prince has learned that exceptional universities in America and abroad refuse to be neutral about the great moral issues of their time. Students deserve and demand that their institutions be as brave as they are. Mr. Prince certainly is, as he cogently and courageously presents the case for colleges to be involved in their communities and their country. He takes us to Africa, Australia and Europe to provide inspiring examples of how students and educators can respect and motivate each other to improve their societies. You can't put this book down, and you won't. --Paul Gambaccini, BBC Radio Prince's message is of particular relevance in today's fractured and dangerous world....Education is a fundamental force in the historical evolution of civilization in its broadest sense, encompassing a plethora of cultures and societies. This book is essential reading for educators at university level and of great benefit to the general reader concerned with the role of education in our changing society.   --Iqbal Riza, former Chief of Staff to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Amongst the many books on the rights and wrongs of higher education each year, occasionally one appears with the power to truly transform the landscape and all those who learn, labor, lead and live within it.  Such is the book, Teach Them to Challenge Authority: Educating for Healthy Societies by Gregory Prince.  He builds on a traditional foundation of liberal learning in educating for critical thinking and the spirit of inquiry, expanding its role to meet the challenges of the 21st century by advocating for important global issues, such as civil liberties - even when these impinge on controversial issues such as reproductive rights - and social justice....Gregory Prince shows the path ahead with clarity, elegance and with ideas and writing that will move anyone who reads this book. -- David K. Scott, Chancellor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst Teach Them to Challenge Authority offers a cogent, thoughtful treatise on the value of engaged education in terms of cortical thinking skills and other benefits....In short, this book should be read and discussed by students, faculty, and administrators who are seeking more than buzzwords about engagement and want to dig deeper in to the rationale for an engaged, activist academy populated by different types of institutions.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780826491381
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 566 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0826491383
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Educating for Healthy Societies


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