America The West And Liberal Education

Author : Ralph C. Hancock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 0847692310

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America, the West, and Liberal Education by Ralph C. Hancock Pdf

More than a decade ago, Allan BloomOs The Closing of the American Mind raised the philosophical stakes of the debate concerning the proper role of the study of the great books in higher education. BloomOs argument for the Western tradition employed both the rhetoric of knowledge for its own sake, and that of the broadly political uses of education. But the question of the precise relationship between the intellectual and the moral-political ends of liberal education was not BloomOs theme; though he clearly opposed the political radicalization of the curriculum espoused by many who styled themselves post modernists, he may not have adequately addressed their contention that all education is deeply political. The essays in America, the West and Liberal Education attempt to advance our understanding of the proper purposes of liberal education in America by exploring the relationship between the free pursuit of truth and the practical ends embedded in a particular tradition or political community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0804765774

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The Battleground of the Curriculum by Anonim Pdf

This book examines the current debates about the curriculum in historical context and offers considerations for the future.

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393247695

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In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria Pdf

CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition. The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education—how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning—precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.

Author : William C. Kirby,Marijk C. van der Wende
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781349948925

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Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia by William C. Kirby,Marijk C. van der Wende Pdf

This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for excellence and relevance in undergraduate education, contributors examine if it can be implemented in different contexts and across academic cultures, structures, and traditions.

Author : William Moner,Phillip Motley,Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421438214

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Redesigning Liberal Education by William Moner,Phillip Motley,Rebecca Pope-Ruark Pdf

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Author : Stephen C. Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1940447364

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Two Americas by Stephen C. Rowe Pdf

There are two Americas at this point in history, with two very different worldviews. One is the modern view of separated individuals defined by their right to pursue and protect material well-being in a world of free market capitalism and unlimited natural resources. The second worldview is pluralistic and relational, committed to sustainable practices that are supportive of democracy and promote the common good. These essays focus on the conflict between the two Americas as it is manifest in contemporary higher education. Higher education still stands as the gateway to adult life in a society that continues to assume an intimate connection between national well-being and educational opportunity. As such, it presents a way of understanding the underlying tension of American culture, and in some ways of global culture. Higher education itself can be an educative microcosm. Widespread availability of liberal education is an essential component of any society that seeks to sustain democratic institutions. Democracy is a form of governance that requires an active and informed citizenry who share material resources sufficiently to enable all members of society to participate. A crisis in liberal education is therefore a threat to democracy. The survival of America, perhaps the world, turns on whether we can become aware of the limitations of the worldview we have inherited and choose a better one, one more conducive to life.

Author : Andrew Fleming West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015030691151

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Short Papers on American Liberal Education by Andrew Fleming West Pdf

Author : James C. Turner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421435978

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The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton by James C. Turner Pdf

Originally published in 1999. James Turner's biography offers the first modern account of Norton's life and its significance, following him from his perilous travels across India as a young merchant to his role as his country's preeminent cultural critic. Turner shows how Norton developed the key ideas that still underlie the humanities—historicism and culture—and how his influence endures in America's colleges and universities because of institutions he developed and models he devised.

Author : Roosevelt Montas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691224398

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Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montas Pdf

A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.

Author : Patti McGill Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136461873

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Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum by Patti McGill Peterson Pdf

Comparative research on higher education in developing and transitional countries is often focused on such issues as access, finance, student mobility and the impact of globalization, but there has been little attention to curriculum and the forces that shape it. Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum fills an important gap in the literature by examining the context, content, challenges, and successes of implementing liberal arts coursework within undergraduate curriculum. In order to fully understand the place of liberal education in each location, chapter authors have employed a wide lens to investigate the influences upon curricular content in China, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, South Africa, and Turkey. Thus, this volume explores how curricular content is decided, how educational programs are being structured, and whether countries are viewing higher education as more than just the preparation of students for specialized knowledge. By providing detailed case studies of these countries at crucial transition points in their higher education systems, each chapter outlines the state of higher education system and the government’s role, the impact of imported models, the presence of a liberal education, the curricular formation, and best examples of successful programs. Ultimately, this volume depicts how global influences have come to rest in developing countries and how market forces far removed from faculty and students have shaped the undergraduate curriculum. This valuable book is of interest to scholars and researchers in Higher Education as well as practitioners working to foster student and faculty exchange and raise awareness of curricular issues.

Author : Darryl Gless,Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 0822311992

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The Politics of Liberal Education by Darryl Gless,Barbara Herrnstein Smith Pdf

Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform in response to attacks by academic traditionalists. The authors here—themselves distinguished scholars and educators—share the belief that American schools, colleges, and universities can do a far better job of educating the nation’s increasingly diverse population and that the liberal arts must play a central role in providing students with the resources they need to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Within this area of consensus, however, the contributors display a wide range of approaches, illuminating the issues from the perspectives of their particular disciplines—classics, education, English, history, and philosophy, among others—and their individual experiences as teachers. Among the topics they discuss are canon-formation in the ancient world, the idea of a “common culture,” and the educational implications of such social movements as feminism, technological changes including computers and television, and intellectual developments such as “theory.” Readers interested in the controversies over American education will find this volume an informed alternative to sensationalized treatments of these issues. Contributors. Stanley Fish, Phyllis Franklin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry A. Giroux, Darryl J. Gless, Gerald Graff, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, George A. Kennedy, Bruce Kuklick, Richard A. Lanham, Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich, Alexander Nehamas, Mary Louise Pratt, Richard Rorty, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Author : Anthony O'Hear,Marc Sidwell
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781845404192

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The School of Freedom by Anthony O'Hear,Marc Sidwell Pdf

Liberal education is not a theory. It is the tradition by which Western civilisation has preserved and enriched its inheritance for two and a half thousand years. Yet liberal education is a term that has fallen from use in Britain, its traditional meaning now freely confused with its opposite. This book is intended to correct that misapprehension, through the presentation of original source material from the high points in the liberal education tradition with particular focus on the British experience. Section 1: Origins (c. 450 BC to c. 450 AD) Section 2: The British Tradition (c. 750 to 1950) Section 3: After Tradition (1950 onward) Section 4: Liberal Education Redux (America)

Author : Wilson Smith,Thomas Bender
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801895855

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American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005 by Wilson Smith,Thomas Bender Pdf

Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender have assembled an essential reference for policymakers, administrators, and all those interested in the history and sociology of higher education.

Author : Avi I. Mintz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350074439

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A History of Western Philosophy of Education in Antiquity by Avi I. Mintz Pdf

This volume traces the history of Western philosophy of education in Antiquity. Between the fifth century BCE and the fifth century CE, Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, and others raised questions about the nature of teaching and learning, the relationship of education and politics, and the elements of a distinctively philosophical education. Their arguments on these topics launched a conversation that occupied philosophers over the millennia and continues today. About A History of Western Philosophy of Education: An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students of education, this five-volume set that traces the development of philosophy of education through Western culture and history. Focusing on philosophers who have theorized education and its implementation, the series constitutes a fresh, dynamic, and developing view of educational philosophy. It expands our educational possibilities by reinvigorating philosophy's vibrant critical tradition, connecting old and new perspectives, and identifying the continuity of critique and reconstruction. It also includes a timeline showing major historical events, including educational initiatives and the publication of noteworthy philosophical works.

Author : John E. Seery
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791487525

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America Goes to College by John E. Seery Pdf

Extols the virtue of small liberal arts colleges and the liberal arts tradition.