The Schooled Heart: Moral Reformation in American Higher Education

by Douglas V. Henry (Editor), Michael D. Beaty (Editor)

Overview

The Schooled Heart addresses a basic question about the nature of the university: should moral education figure among the university's purposes? This volume offers an affirmative response to that question. A central purpose of the university is the moral formation of students—what Beaty and Henry call the schooling of the heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602580923
Publisher:	Baylor University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Series:	Studies in Religion and Higher Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	235
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Douglas V. Henry (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Honors College, and Director of the Institute for Faith and Learning at Baylor University.

Michael D. Beaty (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame) is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Baylor University.

Table of Contents

Introduction Retrieving the Tradition, Remembering the End
Michael D. Beaty and Douglas V. Henry

Part I-American Higher Education's Unschooled Heart

Chapter 1 Liberal Education, Moral Education, and Religion
Warren A. Nord

Chapter 2 Free Love and Christian Higher Education: Reflections on a Passage from Plato's Theaetetus
Robert C. Roberts

Chapter 3 Returning Moral Philosophy to American Higher Education
Nicholas K. Meriwether

Chapter 4 Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana: Schooling the Heart in the Heart of Texas
Stanley Hauerwas

Part II-Christian Resources for Moral Formation in the Academy

Chapter 5 Wisdom, Community, Freedom, Truth: Moral Education and the "Schooled Heart"
David Lyle Jeffrey

Chapter 6 Tracking the Toxins of Acedia: Re-envisioning Moral Education
Paul J. Waddell and Darin H. Davis

Chapter 7 Could Humility Be a Deliberative Virtue?
Shawn D. Floyd

Chapter 8 Cultivating Humility: Teaching Practices Rooted in Christian Anthropology
Stephen K. Moroney, Matthew P. Phelps, and Scott T. Waalkes

What People are Saying About This

The Schooled Heart starkly portrays the current state of American higher education that has abdicated its responsibility for moral instruction, but the authors avoid succumbing to a mere lament and provide a balanced array of practical pedagogical options to encourage moral formation in students. This is a very helpful volume for faith-based institutions and all of American higher education.

Paul Corts

The Schooled Heart starkly portrays the current state of American higher education that has abdicated its responsibility for moral instruction, but the authors avoid succumbing to a mere lament and provide a balanced array of practical pedagogical options to encourage moral formation in students. This is a very helpful volume for faith-based institutions and all of American higher education.

Todd P. Steen

The authors debunk notions of moral neutrality in teaching and provide pedagogical strategies to develop a moral education that can actually work, highlighting the development of several necessary virtues. Practical yet deep, this volume will be a valuable resource for all educators interested in their students' moral development.

C. John Sommerville

Warren Nord and Stanley Hauerwas lead off this stimulating collection on a subject which is attracting prominent concern. Rather than scattering the reader's attention over the whole of the field, the articles are chosen and introduced in close relation to each other and develop a coherent approach, suggesting that we are at a point of convergence in this important area.