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Campus Rules and Moral Community: In Place of in Loco Parentis

Contributor(s): Hoekema, David A (Author)

ISBN: 9780847676897

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Pub Date: August 2, 1994

Dewey: 378.1810973

LCCN: 93026957

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.65" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.94 lbs) 290 pages

Series: Issues in Academic Ethics

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Description: Colleges and universities have largely abandoned their traditional stance in loco parentis, as moral guardians over student life, and instead seek to promote toleration while preventing conflict. In this volume David A Hoekema argues that in doing so, they fail to provide an a...

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"David A. Hoekema . . . has written an entertaining, good-humored, and pointed account of the stages by which American higher education has moved away from the 'Rin loco parentis' doctrine, and he also has documented the sometimes befuddled and even comic attempts to find alternative ways of defining campus 'community'." --Academe

"...well thought out and deserves extensive consideration...a thoughtful discussion..." --Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

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