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Title Rethinking liberal education / edited by Nicholas H. Farnham and Adam Yarmolinsky
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 168 pages ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Introduction / Nicholas H. Farnham -- 2. A Historical Perspective / Bruce A. Kimball -- 3. The Importance of Mission / Susan Resneck Pierce -- 4. Some Thoughts on Curriculum and Change / Leon Botstein -- 5. The Search for American Liberal Education / Frank F. Wong -- 6. Restructuring for the Twenty-First Century / Stanley N. Katz -- 7. The Years before College / Howard Gardner -- 8. Technology and Computer Literacy / Peter Lyman -- 9. Constraints and Opportunities / Adam Yarmolinsky -- 10. The Student as Scholar / Ernest L. Boyer
Summary Drawn from a symposium jointly sponsored by the Educational Leadership Program and the American Council of Learned Societies, this work looks at the requirements of liberal education for the next century and the strategies of getting there. Rethinking Liberal Education proposes better ways of connecting the curriculum and organization of liberal art colleges with today's challenging economic and social realities. The authors push for greater flexibility in the organizational structure of academic departments, and argue that faculty should play a greater role in the hard discussions that shape their institutions
Notes Papers presented at a symposium held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., in Apr. 1994
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States -- Congresses.
Education, Higher -- Curricula -- United States -- Congresses.
Education, Humanistic -- United States -- Congresses.
Educavion, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States -- Congresses
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Farnham, Nicholas H.
Yarmolinsky, Adam.
LC no. 95003263
ISBN 0195097726