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Author Baker, Jack R., author.

Title Wendell Berry and higher education : cultivating virtues of place / Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro ; foreword by Wendell Berry
Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource
Contents Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Imagining the Tree of Wisdom; 2 Standing by Our Words; 3 Doing Good Work; Introduction to Part 2; 4 Tradition; 5 Hierarchy; 6 Geography; 7 Community; Conclusion; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Drawing on Berry's essays, fiction, and poetry, Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro illuminate the influential thinker's vision for higher education in this groundbreaking study
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 30, 2017)
Subject Berry, Wendell, 1934-
SUBJECT Berry, Wendell, 1934- fast
Subject Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
Education, Higher -- Philosophy
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Bilbro, Jeffrey, author.
Berry, Wendell, 1934- writer of foreword.
ISBN 9780813169033
0813169038
9780813169040
0813169046