| Description |
xiii, 281 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"Contains the main papers and critical commentaries developed in connection with the second national conference of the University Centers for Rational Alternatives, held at Rockefeller University, New York City, on September 21-22, 1973." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
[1.] General education -challenge and justification: General education and the university crisis / Wm. Theodore deBary -- General education: the minimum indispensables / Sidney Hook -- On reviving liberal education -in the seventies / Joseph J. Schwab -- [2.] Humanistic disciplines: Humanism and the humanities / Frederick A. Olafson -- Justifying the humanities / Ronald Berman -- Observations on humanism and history / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- Language and methods of humanism / M.H. Abrams -- [3.] Place of science and the scientific outlook: Science, science teaching, and rationality / Gerald Holton -- In defense of scientific knowledge / Ernest Nagel -- Uses and limitations of science teaching / Michael Rabin -- Multilevel teaching of the natural sciences / Miro M. Todorovich -- [4.] Problems and dilemmas of the social sciences: Social sciences in liberal education / Nathan Glazer -- Economist among the social scientists / Charles Issawi -- Social science and general education / Thomas Sowell -- A role for social science? / Robert L. Bartley -- [5.] Reflections on the curriculum: Experiential education and revitalization of the liberal arts / John B. Stephenson and Robert F. Sexton -- Education for the future: the liberating arts / Paul Kurtz -- Desirability of pulling one's horns / Mortimer R. Kadish -- On sharpening the horns / Sidney Hook -- Humanities as scholarship and a branch of knowledge / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Questions of viability in nontraditional education / Herbert I. London -- On interdisciplinary education / Howard B. Radest -- Logic of the social sciences: to be, to do, or to describe? / Henry R. Novotny -- A proposal for a new division of the curriculum / Gray Dorsey -- On the condition of political science / Joseph Dunner -- New beginnings in general education / Aldo S. Bernardo -- Thoughts on a social-science curriculum / Feliks Gross -- Specter at the feast / Reuben Abel. |
| Subject |
Education -- Curricula -- Congresses.
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Education -- Curricula. |
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General education -- Congresses.
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General education. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989.
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Kurtz, Paul, 1925-2012.
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Todorovich, Miro.
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University Centers for Rational Alternatives.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Philosophy of the curriculum. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, [1975] (OCoLC)578564593 |
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Online version: Philosophy of the curriculum. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, [1975] (OCoLC)609081393 |
| ISBN |
0879750510 |
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9780879750510 |
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