| Description |
xxvi, 351 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Editor's prologue / Robert Orrill -- Re-imagining liberal education / Louis Menand -- From discipline-based to problem-centered learning / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann -- Naming pragmatic liberal education / Bruce A. Kimball -- Cosmopolitan pragmatism : deliberative democracy and higher education / James T. Kloppenberg -- Pragmatism, idealism, and the aims of liberal education / Charles W. Anderson -- Innovation in the liberal arts and sciences / Douglas C. Bennett -- Professing the liberal arts / Lee S. Shulman -- American tradition of aspirational democracy / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich -- Liberal education and democracy : the case for pragmatism / Alexander W. Astin -- Dewey versus Hutchins : the next round / Thomas Ehrlich -- Stratification of cultures as the barrier to democratic pluralism / Troy Duster -- Biology, pragmatism, and liberal education / Ernst Mayr -- Liberal education in Cyberia / Peter Lyman -- Placing liberal education in the service of democracy / Nicholas H. Farnham -- Education for a world lived in common with others / Lee Knefelkamp -- Afterword : anchoring the future in the past : 1931-1997 / Rita Bornstein. |
| Subject |
Education, Higher.
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Education, Humanistic.
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Education, Higher -- Curricula.
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| Added Author |
Orrill, Robert.
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College Entrance Examination Board.
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| ISBN |
0874475899 (pbk.) |
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0874475880 |
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