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1 online resource (vi, 305 pages) |
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Post-contemporary interventions |
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Post-contemporary interventions.
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
Introduction : The public, the press, and the professors -- Humanities for the future : reflections on the Western culture debate at Stanford / Mary Louise Pratt -- The extraordinary convergence : democracy, technology, theory, and the university curriculum / Richard A. Lanham -- Teach the conflicts / Gerald Graff -- Cult-lit : Hirsch, literacy, and the "national culture" / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- The master's pieces : on canon formation and the African-American tradition / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Liberal arts education and the struggle for public life : dreaming about democracy / Henry A. Giroux -- Pedagogy in the context of an antihomophobic project / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Serious watching / Alexander Nehamas -- From ivory tower to Tower of Babel/ / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich -- The emergence of the humanities / Bruce Kuklick -- The academy and the public / Phyllis Franklin -- Classics and canons / George A. Kennedy -- Two cheers for the cultural Left / Richard Rorty -- The common touch, or, one size fits all / Stanley Fish -- Against nostalgia : reflections on our present discontents in American higher education / Francis Oakley |
| Summary |
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 mu |
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Education Reform |
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United States |
| Notes |
Revised papers originally presented at a conference held in 1988 at Duke University and the University of North Carolina |
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All but two essays previously published as vol. 89, no. 1 (winter 1990) of the South Atlantic quarterly |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Education, Humanistic -- United States -- Congresses
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EDUCATION -- Aims & Objectives.
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Education, Humanistic
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gless, Darryl J., 1945-2014, editor.
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822381747 |
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0822381745 |
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1283062380 |
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9781283062381 |
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