Morally Animated: Toward a First-Year Seminar From the Person up. Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cockle, Theodore F.
• Is Part Of: Journal of college and character. Volume 20:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 218
• Page End: 233
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States -- Periodicals; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States -- Periodicals; Citizenship -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Periodicals; 378.015
• DOI: 10.1080/2194587X.2019.1631188
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2194-587X

Abstract

Abstract: The first-year seminar has historically been concerned with socializing students into collegiate life. As with any type of socialization, the first-year seminar perpetuates and is perpetuated by assumptions of "the good." Despite these moral assumptions, little research has discussed the first-year seminar in moral terms. In this article, I investigate the moral assumptions of first-year seminar research and practice to demonstrate the cost of failing to recognize the seminar as morally animated space. Following my analysis, I envision the first-year seminar from the person up.