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The Politics of liberal education /
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 educati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[1992]
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| Colección: | Post-contemporary interventions.
e-Duke books scholarly collection. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 mu |
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| Notas: | Revised papers originally presented at a conference held in 1988 at Duke University and the University of North Carolina. All but two essays previously published as vol. 89, no. 1 (winter 1990) of the South Atlantic quarterly. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 305 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822381747 0822381745 1283062380 9781283062381 |