Powers of the mind [electronic resource] : the reinvention of liberal learning in America / Donald N. Levine.
By: Levine, Donald Nathan.
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BookPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: xv, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Curricula -- United States | Curriculum change -- United States | Education, Higher -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 378/.012 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-281) and index.
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.
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