What do you think, Mr. Ramirez? : the American revolution in education /

"Geoffrey Galt Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one day, the professor asked him, 'Mr. Ramirez, what do you think?...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Temas:
1900-1999
Education, Humanistic > United States.
Education, Humanistic > United States > History.
Education, Higher > United States.
Education > United States > Philosophy.
English literature > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States.
English literature > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States > History > 20th century.
Éducation humaniste > États-Unis.
Éducation humaniste > États-Unis > Histoire.
EDUCATION > Essays.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Reference.
Education, Higher
Education, Humanistic
Education > Philosophy
English literature > Study and teaching (Higher)
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The American revolution in education; Mr. Ramirez comes to America; Teaching the intangibles: general education in postwar America; Limitations of the whole man; Breaking the stranglehold of the present; James B. Conant, American radical
  • t Rights of the pryvat spyrit: from dissent to interpretation
  • From separation to society
  • From faith to fiction
  • From origin to originalism
  • From eloquence to abolition
  • From America to English
  • The peculiar opportunities of English; English and wisdom; The meaning of literature; The birth of criticism from the spirit of compromise; I.A. Richards and the emergence of an American humanities; Turning science into the humanities: the New Criticism; The persistence of intention
  • Postscript : in praise of depth.

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