The Marketplace Of Ideas Reform And Resistance In The American University Issues Of Our Time
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The Marketplace Of Ideas Reform And Resistance In The American University Issues Of Our Time
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Author : Louis Menand
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2010-01-18
The Marketplace Of Ideas Reform And Resistance In The American University Issues Of Our Time written by Louis Menand 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 2010-01-18 with Education categories.
Sparking a long-overdue debate about the future of American education, "The Marketplace of Ideas" examines traditional university institutions, assessing what is worth saving and what is not
The Marketplace Of Ideas Reform And Resistance In The American University Issues Of Our Time
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Author : Louis Menand
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2010-12-06
The Marketplace Of Ideas Reform And Resistance In The American University Issues Of Our Time written by Louis Menand 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 2010-12-06 with Education categories.
"Crisp and illuminating . . . well worth reading."—Wall Street Journal The publication of The Marketplace of Ideas has precipitated a lively debate about the future of the American university system: what makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects are required? Why are so many academics against the concept of interdisciplinary studies? From his position at the heart of academe, Harvard professor Louis Menand thinks he's found the answer. Despite the vast social changes and technological advancements that have revolutionized the society at large, general principles of scholarly organization, curriculum, and philosophy have remained remarkably static. Sparking a long-overdue debate about the future of American education, The Marketplace of Ideas argues that twenty-first-century professors and students are essentially trying to function in a nineteenth-century system, and that the resulting conflict threatens to overshadow the basic pursuit of knowledge and truth.
What Are Universities For
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Author : Stefan Collini
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-02-23
What Are Universities For written by Stefan Collini and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-23 with Education categories.
Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argument for completely rethinking the way we see our universities, and why we need them. Stefan Collini challenges the common claim that universities need to show that they help to make money in order to justify getting more money. Instead, he argues that we must reflect on the different types of institution and the distinctive roles they play. In particular we must recognize that attempting to extend human understanding, which is at the heart of disciplined intellectual enquiry, can never be wholly harnessed to immediate social purposes - particularly in the case of the humanities, which both attract and puzzle many people and are therefore the most difficult subjects to justify. At a time when the future of higher education lies in the balance, What Are Universities For? offers all of us a better, deeper and more enlightened understanding of why universities matter, to everyone.
Toward A More Perfect University
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Author : Jonathan R Cole
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2016-01-26
Toward A More Perfect University written by Jonathan R Cole and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Education categories.
A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America's great universities should evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence and enhance their intellectual stature and social mission as higher education confronts the twenty-first-century developments in technology, humanities, culture, and economics. Jonathan R. Cole, former provost and current University Professor at Columbia University, addresses some of the biggest challenges facing the modern American university: developing effective admission policies, creating the most meaningful examinations, dealing with rising costs, making undergraduate education central to the university's mission, exploring the role of the humanities, facilitating new discoveries and innovation, determining the place for professional schools, developing the research campuses of the future, assessing the role of sports, designing leadership and governance, and combating intellectual and legal threats to academic freedom.
The Search For Truth
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Author : Maxwell Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2022-05-01
The Search For Truth written by Maxwell Bennett and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-01 with Science categories.
Universities have searched for truth over nearly a millennium. Maxwell Bennett recounts the history of this search during three of its most momentous periods in the 13th, 18th and 20th centuries, which helped fashion the idea of a university. He concludes with a cautionary assessment of whether universities, given their present level of material support, can reliably continue to protect and advance society.
The Limits Of Religious Tolerance
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Author : Alan Jay Levinovitz
language : en
Publisher: Amherst College Press
Release Date : 2016-10-21
The Limits Of Religious Tolerance written by Alan Jay Levinovitz and has been published by Amherst College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with Religion categories.
Religion’s place in American public life has never been fixed. As new communities have arrived, as old traditions have fractured and reformed, as cultural norms have been shaped by shifting economic structures and the advance of science, and as new faith traditions have expanded the range of religious confessions within America’s religious landscape, the claims posited by religious faiths—and the respect such claims may demand—have been subjects of near-constant change. In The Limits of Religious Tolerance, Alan Jay Levinovitz pushes against the widely held (and often unexamined) notion that unbounded tolerance must and should be accorded to claims forwarded on the basis of religious belief in a society increasingly characterized by religious pluralism. Pressing at the distinction between tolerance and respect, Levinovitz seeks to offer a set of guideposts by which a democratic society could identify and observe a set of limits beyond which religiously grounded claims may legitimately be denied the expectation of unqualified non-interference.
Currents In The Interpretation Of Paul
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Author : Neil Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2024-09-05
Currents In The Interpretation Of Paul written by Neil Elliott and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-05 with Religion categories.
The apostle Paul has long been championed, or criticized, as a Christian thinker, as a brilliant theological genius, or an enthusiastic convert who spun arguments to justify his new allegiances. In these essays, Neil Elliott engages some of the most provocative currents in contemporary scholarship, including Paul and the nature of violence; the presumptions of religious, cultural, or national innocence in particular interpretations of the apostle; the recent enthusiasm for Paul in some streams of Marxist thought; competing construals of economic realities in Paul’s day (and our own); and questions surrounding Paul’s legacy today.
Reclaiming Accountability
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Author : Wendy Sharer
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2016-04-06
Reclaiming Accountability written by Wendy Sharer and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Reclaiming Accountability brings together a series of critical case studies of writing programs that have planned, implemented, and/or assessed the impact of large-scale accreditation-supported initiatives. The book reimagines accreditation as a way to leverage institutional or programmatic change. Contributions to the volume are divided into three parts. Part 1 considers how specialists in composition and rhetoric can work most productively with accrediting bodies to design assessments and initiatives that meet requirements while also helping those agencies to better understand how writing develops and how it can most effectively be assessed. Parts 2 and 3 present case studies of how institutions have used ongoing accreditation and assessment imperatives to meet student learning needs through programmatic changes and faculty development. They provide concrete examples of productive curricular (part 2) and instructional (part 3) changes that can follow from accreditation mandates while providing guidance for navigating challenges and pitfalls that WPAs may encounter within shifting and often volatile local, regional, and national contexts. In addition to providing examples of how others in the profession might approach such work, Reclaiming Accountability addresses assessment requirements beyond those in the writing program itself. It will be of interest to department heads, administrators, writing program directors, and those involved with writing teacher education, among others. Contributors: Linda Adler-Kassner, William P. Banks, Remica Bingham-Risher, Melanie Burdick, Polina Chemishanova, Malkiel Choseed, Kyle Christiansen, Angela Crow, Maggie Debelius, Michelle F. Eble, Jonathan Elmore, Lorna Gonzalez, Angela Green, Jim Henry, Ryan Hoover, Rebecca Ingalls, Cynthia Miecznikowski, Susan Miller-Cochran, Cindy Moore, Tracy Ann Morse, Joyce Magnotto Neff, Karen Nulton, Peggy O’Neill, Jessica Parker, Mary Rist, Rochelle Rodrigo, Tulora Roeckers, Shirley K. Rose, Iris M. Saltiel, Wendy Sharer, Terri Van Sickle, Jane Chapman Vigil, David M. Weed
Contemporary Pragmatism Volume 10 Number 1 June 2013
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Author : Mitchel Aboulafia
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2013-10-20
Contemporary Pragmatism Volume 10 Number 1 June 2013 written by Mitchel Aboulafia and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-20 with Philosophy categories.
Contents Bryan G. Norton: Leopold, Hadley, and Darwin: Darwinian Epistemology, Truth, and Right Wouter de Been and Sanne Taekema: What Piece of Work is Man? Frans de Waal and Pragmatist Naturalism Nicholas Rescher: The Pragmatics of Betterment Claudio Marcelo Viale: Royce and Bernstein on Evil Barry Allen: Postmodern Pragmatism and Skeptical Hermeneutics: Richard Rorty and Odo Marquard Seth Vannatta: The Logic of Relevance in Independent School Education: A Pragmatic Critique Andrew F. Smith: Talisse¿s Epistemic Justification of Democracy Reconsidered Giovanni Maddalena: A Synthetic Pattern: Figural and Narrative Identity Review essay Mary Magada-Ward Engaging with Philosophy¿s ¿Limit-Defying Provocateur¿: A Review of Shusterman¿s Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics
Modern Liberty And The Limits Of Government Issues Of Our Time
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Author : Charles Fried
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-02-07
Modern Liberty And The Limits Of Government Issues Of Our Time written by Charles Fried 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 2011-02-07 with Political Science categories.
“An erudite, sharp-tongued libertarian, eager to do battle with censors, regulators ... and sanctimonious busybodies of every stripe.”—New York Times In this impassioned defense of liberty, renowned Harvard law professor Charles Fried argues that the seemingly unimpeachable goals of equality and community are often the most potent rivals of freedom. Declared a “spirited, sophisticated manifesto” by the New York Times Book Review, Modern Liberty demonstrates how the dense tangle of government regulations both supports and threatens our personal liberties. Armed with Fried’s insights, readers will be better able to defend themselves against those on both the left and the right who would, even with the best intentions, restrict their liberty.