The Condition Of American Liberal Education
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The Condition Of American Liberal Education
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Author : Bruce A. Kimball
language : en
Publisher: College Board
Release Date : 1995
The Condition Of American Liberal Education written by Bruce A. Kimball and has been published by College Board this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Education categories.
The Battleground Of The Curriculum
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language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1994-11
The Battleground Of The Curriculum written by and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-11 with categories.
This book examines the current debates about the curriculum in historical context and offers considerations for the future.
Condition Of Liberal Education
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Author : Bruce A. Kimball
language : en
Publisher: College Board
Release Date : 1995-09-01
Condition Of Liberal Education written by Bruce A. Kimball and has been published by College Board this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-01 with categories.
In Defense Of A Liberal Education
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Author : Fareed Zakaria
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2015-03-30
In Defense Of A Liberal Education written by Fareed Zakaria and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-30 with Education categories.
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.
The American College In Relation To Liberal Education Classic Reprint
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Author : David Jayne Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-06
The American College In Relation To Liberal Education Classic Reprint written by David Jayne Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-06 with Education categories.
Excerpt from The American College in Relation to Liberal Education The University of Rochester had its beginning in a liberal and progressive apprehension of educational needs. It was distinctly seen by its founders that an atmosphere of human activity and social refinement is needed to stimulate intellectual culture and invigorate moral character; and, accordingly, this beautiful and prosperous city, which has since become even more conspicuously a centre of elevating influences, was chosen as its seat. Far enough West to feel the thrill of enterprise and to share in the optimistic hopes of Western life without being subject to its provincialisms; far enough East to enjoy the benefits of our oldest American civilization without being influenced by its archaic customs and colonial traditions - Rochester, on the principal highway between the great lakes and the Atlantic, satisfies all the conditions of an ideal university town. The company of men who have shaped the destinies of this institution was originally formed by the selective power of a common conviction that a great opportunity creates a great obligation; and the corporation has since been recruited from among those who shared in this conviction. The not inconsiderable resources which years of generosity and prudence have accumulated are mainly the continued tokens of the satisfaction and perseverance with which the fathers of the enterprise themselves and their colleagues in munificence have regarded their undertaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Aims And Organization Of Liberal Studies
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Author : D. F. Bratchell
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2014-05-16
The Aims And Organization Of Liberal Studies written by D. F. Bratchell and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-16 with Education categories.
The Aims and Organization of Liberal Studies provides an insight into the contributions of the Departments of Liberal Studies to educational thinking, to ensure the achievement of a proper balance between the acquisition of specialized knowledge and skill; and the development of breadth of outlook; and of personal expression in speech and writing. The book sets to present the importance of liberal education in the personal and social development of a person despite the rapid and profound changes brought about by technological advances. The text tackled the status of liberal studies in the international and local levels; in technical colleges and universities; and in adult education and in industry. Teachers, school administrators, scientists, students, and educators will find this book invaluable.
Beyond The University
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Author : Michael S. Roth
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-28
Beyond The University written by Michael S. Roth and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-28 with Education categories.
Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism—often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student’s capacity for lifelong learning was useful for science and commerce while also being essential for democracy. In this provocative contribution to the disputes, university president Michael S. Roth focuses on important moments and seminal thinkers in America’s long-running argument over vocational vs. liberal education. Conflicting streams of thought flow through American intellectual history: W. E. B. DuBois’s humanistic principles of pedagogy for newly emancipated slaves developed in opposition to Booker T. Washington’s educational utilitarianism, for example. Jane Addams’s emphasis on the cultivation of empathy and John Dewey’s calls for education as civic engagement were rejected as impractical by those who aimed to train students for particular economic tasks. Roth explores these arguments (and more), considers the state of higher education today, and concludes with a stirring plea for the kind of education that has, since the founding of the nation, cultivated individual freedom, promulgated civic virtue, and instilled hope for the future.
Beyond Utility
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Author : Athanasios Moulakis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Beyond Utility written by Athanasios Moulakis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Education categories.
Liberal Democracy And Liberal Education
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Author : Daniel E. Cullen
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-12-24
Liberal Democracy And Liberal Education written by Daniel E. Cullen and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-24 with Political Science categories.
The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources. In this sense, liberal education is negative, questioning any and all constraints on the activity of mind. Liberal democracy, devoted to securing individual natural rights, purports to be the regime of liberty par excellence. Since both liberal education and liberal democracy aim to set individuals free, they would seem to be harmonious and mutually reinforcing. But there are reasons to doubt that liberal education can be the civic education liberal democracy needs. If liberal education is in tension with all instrumental purposes, how does it stand toward the goal of preparing the kind of citizens liberal democracy needs? The book’s contributors are critical of the way higher education typically interprets its responsibility for educating citizens, and they link those failures to academia’s neglect of certain founding principles of the American political tradition and of the traditional liberal arts ideal.
The Evolution Of Liberal Arts In The Global Age
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Author : Peter Marber
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-16
The Evolution Of Liberal Arts In The Global Age written by Peter Marber and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-16 with Education categories.
Advanced and developing countries across the globe are embracing the liberal arts approach in higher education to foster more innovative human capital to compete in the global economy. Even as interest in the tradition expands outside the United States, can the democratic philosophy underlying the liberal arts tradition be sustained? Can developing countries operating under heavy authoritarian systems cultivate schools predicated on open discussion and debate? Can entrenched specialist systems in Europe and Asia successfully adopt the multidisciplinary liberal arts model? These are some of the questions put to leading scholars and senior higher education practitioners within this edited collection. Beginning with historical context, international contributors explore the contours of liberal arts education amid public calls for change in the United States, the growing global interest in the approach outside the United States, as well as the potential of liberal arts philosophy in a global knowledge economy.