{"product_id":"undeclared","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.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57275237630334,"sku":"NW9780262547499","price":42.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780262547499.jpg?v=1778598028","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/undeclared","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}