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Author Cranfield, Steven, author

Title F.R. Leavis : the creative university / Steven Cranfield
Published Cham : Springer, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Springer briefs in education. Key thinkers in education
SpringerBriefs in education. Key thinkers in education.
Contents 1 Introduction: the Heretic Who Survived? -- 2 Leavis: Life, Work and Heritage -- 3. Leavis's Educational World-View -- 4 Leavis and Pedagogy: Critical 'Theory' -- 5 Leavis and Pedagogy: Critical Practice -- 6 Leavis and the Creative University -- 6 Leavis and the Creative University
Summary This is a critical introduction to the educational thought of F.R. Leavis (1895-1978), the greatest English literary critic of the twentieth century, providing the first in-depth examination of Leavis's ideas in relation to contemporary mass higher education. During the course of a long, prolific and controversial academic career, which saw him take issue with figures such as Wittgenstein, T.S. Eliot and C.P. Snow, Leavis became one of the most articulate advocates for the idea of the university as 'a centre of consciousness and human responsibility' in the face of what he saw as the relentless technological drive of civilisation. With the journal Scrutiny which he co-founded, as well as his critical writings, Leavis became a decisive influence on generations of teachers in Britain and overseas. Widely misrepresented as narrowly elitist, his ideas about 'the creative university', with their radical, student-centred approach to teaching, constitute a powerful resource for a higher education system grappling with the contradictory demands of continuity and change. Based on original research, the study provides an overview of Leavis's life, work and heritage and his educational world view, and a comprehensive exploration of Leavis's pedagogy from theoretical and practical perspectives. It also includes a first-hand account by the author of being taught by Leavis in person
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 25, 2015)
Subject Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond), 1895-1978.
SUBJECT Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond), 1895-1978 fast
Subject English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Criticism -- England -- History -- 20th century
Higher & further education, tertiary education.
Teaching of a specific subject.
Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
Philosophy & theory of education.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism
English literature -- Theory, etc.
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319259857
3319259857