A Radical Proposal To Reinvigorate The Teaching Of The Liberal Arts

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A Radical Proposal to Reinvigorate the Teaching of the Liberal Arts

Author : Michael Wayne Santos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475858108
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book A Radical Proposal to Reinvigorate the Teaching of the Liberal Arts written by Michael Wayne Santos and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a clarion call, in the words of Franklin Roosevelt, to “try something!” And not just any something. A systematic, integrated, chronological, multi-disciplinary approach to reinvigorate the teaching of the liberal arts and put them back where they belong—at the center of a student’s educational experience. It does not pretend to offer a cure-all or a one-size-fits-all solution to everything that is ailing American higher education, or even secondary education. It does, however, offer a place to begin a discussion, to invite experimentation, and to initiate reform based on solid pedagogy and 2,500 years of time-tested wisdom in the human experience. As such it should be of interest to many people. Those in higher education serious about the crisis facing their institutions could benefit from taking up the gauntlet this volume throws down. For students and parents, the book raises alternatives and poses some hard questions that they should be asking not only as they consider colleges and universities, but of their secondary schools. In fact, anyone who keeps a close eye on the state of education would be interested in what this book adds to the discussion.

The Liberal Arts College and the Ideal of Liberal Education

Author : Henry H. Crimmel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Arts College and the Ideal of Liberal Education written by Henry H. Crimmel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American liberal arts college now appears to be in a crisis that threatens its very existence. Critics have charged that the college no longer delivers on its promise of a liberal education and is in a state of 'moral collapse.' This book analyzes this crisis and offers a radical proposal for its resolution. Crimmel first explains how a college's infidelity to the ideals of liberal education adversely affects its relationship to society, its educational program, and its teachers. He then provides a definition and a defense of liberal education's ideal. Finally, he demonstrates that the college must not submit to any ideology, political agenda, or vocational interest, and that the college's educational program must be centered around a set of rational theoretical and practical skills and that the college teacher must be autonomous and uncompromised by scholarly or administrative responsibilities.

Rediscovering a Nation

Author : Michael Wayne Santos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538169223
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering a Nation written by Michael Wayne Santos and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polarization. Division. Hate. Many Americans wonder how our politics became dysfunctional—and what it will take to fix it. Historian Michael Santos takes readers on a journey to the heart of the American nation and the values that have allowed us to overcome previous challenges, sometimes in spite of ourselves. He remembers the heroes and heroines who challenged us to be better versions of ourselves. Santos addresses a series of interrelated questions: What are the legacies of this country, handed down to us by the Founders? What have previous generations done to keep the principles upon which the Republic rests alive and to advance their implications for more and more people? Where were the fault lines that put the American experiment at risk, and how have we overcome them? And when we have failed to overcome them, what possible lessons are there for an understanding of what America is and can become? By offering these historical perspectives, Santos helps readers overcome the current crisis in faith about the present challenges and future prospects for the American experiment.

Great Books, Honors Programs, and Hidden Origins

Author : William Haarlow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135951454
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Great Books, Honors Programs, and Hidden Origins written by William Haarlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues a new and more complex interpretation of the development and manifestations of the liberal arts movement in American higher education during the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Specifically, the book elucidates the under-explored yet formative role that the University of Virginia and its 1935 'Virginia Plan' played, both in fostering the liberal arts movement, and as a representative institution of the broader interaction colleges and universities had with this movement.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue

Author : David J. Flinders
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 162396024X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue written by David J. Flinders and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum. The field includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large. At the university level, faculty members identified with this field are typically affiliated with the departments of curriculum and instruction, teacher education, educational foundations, elementary education, secondary education, and higher education. CTD promotes all analytical and interpretive approaches that are appropriate for the scholarly study of teaching and curriculum. In fulfillment of this mission, CTD addresses a range of issues across the broad fields of educational research and policy for all grade levels and types of educational programs.

Liberal Arts in the Doldrums

Author : John J. Hampton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781475837957
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Liberal Arts in the Doldrums written by John J. Hampton and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for changes to the professoriate, restructuring of the liberal arts curriculum, and taking a new perspective to breathe fresh air into the undergraduate environment.

Leadership and the Liberal Arts

Author : J. Wren
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230620140
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Leadership and the Liberal Arts written by J. Wren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by presidents of prominent liberal arts colleges and leading intellectuals who reflect on the meaning of educating individuals for leadership and how it can be accomplished in ways consistent with the missions of liberal arts institutions.

Resources in Education

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book English Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of Liberal Education

Author : Darryl Gless
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822311997
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Liberal Education written by Darryl Gless and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

In Defense of a Liberal Education

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247694
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of a Liberal Education written by Fareed Zakaria and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

New Scientist

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book New Scientist written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-11 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Scientist and Science Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New Scientist and Science Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Current Index to Journals in Education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Current Index to Journals in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Current Index to Journals in Education, Semi-Annual Cumulation, July-December, 1976

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Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Index to Journals in Education, Semi-Annual Cumulation, July-December, 1976 written by and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1976-10 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Manifesto of a Tenured Radical

Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814758738
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Manifesto of a Tenured Radical written by Cary Nelson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in higher education. Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical urges academics to apply the theoretical advances of the last twenty years to an analysis of their own practices and standards of behavior. In the process, Nelson offers a devastating critique of current inequities and a detailed proposal for change in the form of A Twelve-Step Program for Academia.

Conservatism

Author : Edmund Neill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509527095
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Conservatism written by Edmund Neill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservatism is often labelled as a ‘disposition’, ‘tradition’, or even a set of knee-jerk reactions, rather than an ideology, and its suspicion of grand theorising has lent itself to this characterization. In this book, leading political theorist Edmund Neill challenges this view. He argues that conservatism is better identified as an ideology, albeit one that, rather than putting forward positive values like ‘liberty’ or ‘equality’, conceptualizes human conduct as being partially dependent on forces beyond human volition, and prioritizes the cautious management of change. He charts the evolution of conservative thought from the French Revolution to the present, examining how conservatives responded to disruptions to traditional order across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on examples from Britain, France and the United States, Neill concludes with some reflections on the challenges (and opportunities) that contemporary populism presents for conservatism. This accomplished overview is essential reading for any student or scholar working in political theory and political philosophy, especially those with a particular interest in ideologies and conservatism.