Todd C Ream
Biographic Data
| ID | 5397786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd C Ream |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ream |
| SIGNATURE | REAM T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1225-6471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Changing Souls
Does higher education currently provide fertile soil for emerging adults’ spiritual growth or does it create a thorny environment that starves it? This chapter explores the answer to this question in four areas: (1) the impact of higher education on student religious belief and practice; (2) religion in the co-curricular dimension of secular campuses; (3) religion in the curricular dimension of secular institutions; and (4) the status of religiou…
A Theology of Higher Education – By Mike Higton
Taking Every Thought Captive
Addressing the moral quandary of contemporary universities
Whereas a consensus used to exist that universities had the responsibility to make students more fully human, today one finds scholars claiming that universities should form only certain aspects of a student’s identity or should draw primarily from only certain aspects. In other words, scholars support the claim that the university should or should not undertake a certain kind of moral education by appealing to a particular aspect of human or ins…
Pragmatism and the Unlikely Influence of German Idealism on the Academy in the United States
In this article I argue that the subject‐object distinction, operative in Continental Europe during the late‐1700s and early‐1800s, led to the religion‐secular distinction in higher education in the United States. Many scholars believe the origins of the shifting nature of the religion‐secular distinction resided with some form of influence that students from the United States encountered while they pursued advanced academic work in Germany. Thes…
From Low‐Lying Roofs to Towering Spires
This article explores the significance that environments play in terms of the learning process. In the United States, the legacy of John Dewey's intellectual efforts left a theoretical understanding that views the architectural composition of learning environments as instrumental mediums which house the educational process. This understanding of learning environments is precipitated by a separation of human agents as subjects and their environmen…
From Low‐Lying Roofs to Towering Spires
This article explores the significance that environments play in terms of the learning process. In the United States, the legacy of John Dewey's intellectual efforts left a theoretical understanding that views the architectural composition of learning environments as instrumental mediums which house the educational process. This understanding of learning environments is precipitated by a separation of human agents as subjects and their environmen…
From Low‐Lying Roofs to Towering Spires
This article explores the significance that environments play in terms of the learning process. In the United States, the legacy of John Dewey's intellectual efforts left a theoretical understanding that views the architectural composition of learning environments as instrumental mediums which house the educational process. This understanding of learning environments is precipitated by a separation of human agents as subjects and their environmen…
Pragmatism and the Unlikely Influence of German Idealism on the Academy in the United States
In this article I argue that the subject‐object distinction, operative in Continental Europe during the late‐1700s and early‐1800s, led to the religion‐secular distinction in higher education in the United States. Many scholars believe the origins of the shifting nature of the religion‐secular distinction resided with some form of influence that students from the United States encountered while they pursued advanced academic work in Germany. Thes…
Addressing the moral quandary of contemporary universities
Whereas a consensus used to exist that universities had the responsibility to make students more fully human, today one finds scholars claiming that universities should form only certain aspects of a student’s identity or should draw primarily from only certain aspects. In other words, scholars support the claim that the university should or should not undertake a certain kind of moral education by appealing to a particular aspect of human or ins…
Taking Every Thought Captive
A Theology of Higher Education – By Mike Higton
Changing Souls
Does higher education currently provide fertile soil for emerging adults’ spiritual growth or does it create a thorny environment that starves it? This chapter explores the answer to this question in four areas: (1) the impact of higher education on student religious belief and practice; (2) religion in the co-curricular dimension of secular campuses; (3) religion in the curricular dimension of secular institutions; and (4) the status of religiou…
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Object (grammar (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)