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Can I read The Politics of Liberal Education on EtoBox?
The Politics of Liberal Education by Barbara Herrnstein Smith; Darryl Gless is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Politics of Liberal Education about?
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 must play a central role in providing students with the resources they need to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Within this area of consensus, however, the contributors display a wide range of approaches, illuminating the issues from the perspectives of their particular disciplines—classics, education, English, history, and philosophy, among others—and their individual experiences as teachers. Among the topics they discuss are canon-formation in the ancient world, the idea of a “common culture,” and the educational implications of such social movements as feminism, technological changes includ
Who reads The Politics of Liberal Education?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Barbara Herrnstein Smith; Darryl Gless
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822311997
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education