Chris Higgins
Biographic Data
| ID | 4227885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Higgins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Higgins |
| SIGNATURE | HIGGINS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2443-0369 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reimagining higher education
Higgins explores two areas of disagreement with Brooks. The first concerns the nature of philosophy and the affordances of the humanistic essay. The second concerns the theory of change in higher education reform, whether it will be efficacious to introduce formative practices into the flow of business as usual or some significant reimagining of the university is necessary
Teaching and Philosophy
Surrendering Noble Lies Where We Buried the Bodies
To enact democracy, which is to live in communication with difference, requires a formative process that involves an education of the whole person for and through civic life. Drawing on Charles Mills's theory of Herrenvolk ethics and Jonathan Lear's analysis of psychosocial lapses that ail us, Sheron Fraser‐Burgess and Chris Higgins pursue a critical, historiographical, and psychosocial reading of our failures to live up to this aspiration, offer…
Formation and Finitude
In this article Chris Higgins considers two works by Jean‐Luc Nancy — “On Being Singular Plural” and “Why Are There Several Arts and Not Just One?” — in light of the formative task to do justice to the diverse dimensions of oneself given the offerings and demands of the world, a task made difficult by our finitude and the existence of incommensurable goods. While Nancy helps us appreciate the value pluralism animating the (liberal) arts, Higgins …
La educación en el corazón de las humanidades
Tal y como están las facultades de educación organizadas actualmente, los filósofos de la educación tienen una existencia marginal y furtiva. A medida que la educación se entiende cada vez más como una investigación científica social sobre "lo que funciona" en las escuelas, los filósofos parecen ser cada vez más inútiles. Incluso nuestro papel en la formación del profesorado, que una vez estuvo asegurado por la metáfora de los fundamentos, ahora …
The hermeneutic straightaway
This review article offers a critique of René Arcilla's theory of education as destiny in Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning. After exploring Arcilla's long-standing interest in developing a dramatic approach to educational philosophy, one that avoids both bloodless theorising and melodramatic kitsch, it is contended that Arcilla's own interpretation of Wenders is melodramatic. Life is lived inside the hermeneutic cir…
Impact and predictors of quality of life in adults diagnosed with a genetic muscle disorder
Working While Caring for Mom, Dad, and Junior Too
Although demographic evidence suggests that, in the developed world, the number of employees who provide both childcare and eldercare is substantial, we know very little about how these 'sandwiched' employees differ from those who provide only one form of caregiving (i.e., childcare, eldercare). In this article, we use partial least squares structural equation modeling to examine dual-income employees in households with three different caregiving…
The promise, pitfalls, and persistent challenge of action research
Action research began as an ambitious epistemological and social intervention. As the concept has become reified, packaged for methodology textbooks and professional development workshops, it has degenerated into a cure that may be worse than the disease. The point is not the trivial one that action research, like any practice, sometimes shows up in cheap or corrupt forms. The very idea that action research already exists as a live option is myst…
The Good Life of Teaching
"The woman business"
Consideration of the legal, social and economic status of women and associated debate about the very nature of woman and her proper sphere, dismissively labelled "the Woman Business" by Thomas Carlyle, became a major preoccupation in mid-Victorian thought and writing and central to the legal and social refonns that gradually took place in the second half of the century. As Barickman et. al. point out, rather than being "a debate" per se, it was r…
Working While Caring for Mom, Dad, and Junior Too
Although demographic evidence suggests that, in the developed world, the number of employees who provide both childcare and eldercare is substantial, we know very little about how these 'sandwiched' employees differ from those who provide only one form of caregiving (i.e., childcare, eldercare). In this article, we use partial least squares structural equation modeling to examine dual-income employees in households with three different caregiving…
Teaching and Philosophy
"The woman business"
Consideration of the legal, social and economic status of women and associated debate about the very nature of woman and her proper sphere, dismissively labelled "the Woman Business" by Thomas Carlyle, became a major preoccupation in mid-Victorian thought and writing and central to the legal and social refonns that gradually took place in the second half of the century. As Barickman et. al. point out, rather than being "a debate" per se, it was r…
The Good Life of Teaching
The promise, pitfalls, and persistent challenge of action research
Action research began as an ambitious epistemological and social intervention. As the concept has become reified, packaged for methodology textbooks and professional development workshops, it has degenerated into a cure that may be worse than the disease. The point is not the trivial one that action research, like any practice, sometimes shows up in cheap or corrupt forms. The very idea that action research already exists as a live option is myst…
Working While Caring for Mom, Dad, and Junior Too
Although demographic evidence suggests that, in the developed world, the number of employees who provide both childcare and eldercare is substantial, we know very little about how these 'sandwiched' employees differ from those who provide only one form of caregiving (i.e., childcare, eldercare). In this article, we use partial least squares structural equation modeling to examine dual-income employees in households with three different caregiving…
La educación en el corazón de las humanidades
Tal y como están las facultades de educación organizadas actualmente, los filósofos de la educación tienen una existencia marginal y furtiva. A medida que la educación se entiende cada vez más como una investigación científica social sobre "lo que funciona" en las escuelas, los filósofos parecen ser cada vez más inútiles. Incluso nuestro papel en la formación del profesorado, que una vez estuvo asegurado por la metáfora de los fundamentos, ahora …
The hermeneutic straightaway
This review article offers a critique of René Arcilla's theory of education as destiny in Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning. After exploring Arcilla's long-standing interest in developing a dramatic approach to educational philosophy, one that avoids both bloodless theorising and melodramatic kitsch, it is contended that Arcilla's own interpretation of Wenders is melodramatic. Life is lived inside the hermeneutic cir…
Impact and predictors of quality of life in adults diagnosed with a genetic muscle disorder
Surrendering Noble Lies Where We Buried the Bodies
To enact democracy, which is to live in communication with difference, requires a formative process that involves an education of the whole person for and through civic life. Drawing on Charles Mills's theory of Herrenvolk ethics and Jonathan Lear's analysis of psychosocial lapses that ail us, Sheron Fraser‐Burgess and Chris Higgins pursue a critical, historiographical, and psychosocial reading of our failures to live up to this aspiration, offer…
Formation and Finitude
In this article Chris Higgins considers two works by Jean‐Luc Nancy — “On Being Singular Plural” and “Why Are There Several Arts and Not Just One?” — in light of the formative task to do justice to the diverse dimensions of oneself given the offerings and demands of the world, a task made difficult by our finitude and the existence of incommensurable goods. While Nancy helps us appreciate the value pluralism animating the (liberal) arts, Higgins …
Reimagining higher education
Higgins explores two areas of disagreement with Brooks. The first concerns the nature of philosophy and the affordances of the humanistic essay. The second concerns the theory of change in higher education reform, whether it will be efficacious to introduce formative practices into the flow of business as usual or some significant reimagining of the university is necessary
Teaching and Philosophy
Psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works)