Powers of the Mind : The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America /

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It is one thing to lament the financial pressures put on universities, quite another to face up to the poverty of resources for thinking about what universities should do when they purport to offer a liberal education. In Powers of the Mind, former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine enriche...

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Autor principal: Levine, Donald N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
Temas:
EDUCATION / General.
higher education, college, university, resources, funding, endowment, liberal arts, modernity, curriculum, disciples, leadership, pedagogy, philosophy, hutchins, dewey, architecton, richard mckeon, humanities, teaching, learning, testing, knowledge, communication, self, nonfiction, history, liberalism, scholars, sociology, joseph schwab.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: Missing Resources in Higher Education
  • I. Crises of Liberal Learning in the Modern World
  • II. Enter Chicago
  • III. Reinventing Liberal Education in Our Time
  • Epilogue: The Fate of Liberal Learning
  • Appendix: Three Syllabi for Teaching Powers at Chicago
  • References
  • Index

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