| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281) and index. |
| Contents |
The place of liberal learning -- The movement for general education -- The making of a curricular tradition -- Dewey and Hutchins at Chicago -- Richard McKeon : architecton of human powers -- Joseph Schwab's assault on facile teaching -- What is educational about the study of civilizations? -- New goals for the liberal curriculum -- Goals for the liberal curriculum I: powers of prehension -- Goals for the liberal curriculum II: powers of expression -- New ways of framing pedagogy -- My experiments in teaching powers. |
| Summary |
In Powers of the Mind, former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine considers the liberal education that our universities purport to offer, finds it lacking, and in response proposes fresh and invigorating ways to think about liberal learning that are more suited to our times. Levine begins by defining basic values of modernity and then considering pertinent curricular principles. The principles he favors are powers of the mind?disciplines understood as fields of study defined less by their subject matter than by the distinct intellectual capacities they embody. To illustrate, Levine dra. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Curricula -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Curricula. |
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United States. |
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Curriculum change -- United States.
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Curriculum change. |
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Education, Higher -- Philosophy.
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Education, Higher -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Levine, Donald Nathan, 1931- Powers of the mind. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006 0226475530 9780226475530 (DLC) 2006011264 (OCoLC)67239836 |
| ISBN |
9780226475783 (electronic book) |
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0226475786 (electronic book) |
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1281965847 |
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9781281965844 |
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0226475530 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226475530 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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