Böcker av Patrick Allen

Christian higher education needs something richer and deeper.Faith-based institutions yearn for more than business as usual, and Echoes of Insight invites you to listen again to older, forgotten, and perhaps even ignored voices. Designed to stimulate conversation among colleagues, Echoes of Insight offers brief summaries of several thought-provoking writers from the last century and encourages a new, vigorous conversation about Christian higher education.Alfred North WhiteheadJohn Henry NewmanDorothy SayersAbraham FlexnerHannah ArendtThorstein VeblenFlannery O'ConnorJose Ortega y GassetMaria MontessoriRobert Maynard HutchinsKarl Jaspers

In his book Conferring: The Keystone of Reader¿s Workshop, Allen argues that the benefits of conferring outweigh the challenges and that teachers must put forth the effort of learning how to do it well.