Core Texts, Community, and Culture

Working Together for Liberal Education
Herausgeber: Weber, Ronald J.; Buzan, Mary; Lee, Scott J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Throughout its existence, the Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) has asserted its commitment to the need for humans to come together to speak about the scientific, the political, and the artistic in order to live together in an enlightened fashion. In 2004, ACTC's Tenth Annual Conference convened to re-affirm and re-examine the value of serious reading and discussion focused through core texts. Participants articulated the various ways by which core text education in the liberal arts constructs and supports different expressions of community on college campuses around the world. Presenters asked whether it is better to contemplate the arts simply as expressions of cultures and traditions or to cultivate them, taking the risk that what is valued in artistic expressions might be changed by the inventions of teachers and the students they encourage. The essays collected here reflect the responses of the diverse group of ACTC's members, all of whom support the idea of liberal core text education with the self-conscious awareness of the challenges facing liberal education in the modern academy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780761849360
• ISBN-10: 076184936X
• Artikelnr.: 27938010

Autorenporträt

Edited by Ronald J. Weber; Scott J. Lee; Mary Buzan; Anne Marie Flanagan and Douglas Hadley

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Community: History and Forms Chapter 3
Humanizing the Technological Vision: Core Learning and the Relation of the
Sciences and Humanities Chapter 4 Plato's Crito and the Development of
Community Chapter 5 Augustine's Intellectual Conversion Part 6 Views of
Community Chapter 7 Beowulf: The Other Epic Chapter 8 Montesquieu and the
Problematic Character of Modern Citizenship Chapter 9 Kleos and Kitsch:
Postcard Patriotism in Derek Walcott's Omeros Chapter 10 Lyric and the
Skill of Life Chapter 11 Achieving (Comm) Unity in Difference Through the
Core Text Part 12 Literary Experiences of Community Chapter 13 The Music of
Democracy: Core Values in Core Texts Chapter 14 Nature and Tyranny in
Aristophanes' Birds: The Real Meal Deal Chapter 15 Lyrics Breath: Taking
Seriously the Trope of Immortality in Shakespeare's Sonnets Chapter 16
Whose Underground?: Notes on Locating Dostoyevsky Part 17 Community: New
Perspectives Chapter 18 Art, Integrating Disciplinse, and Liberal
Education: Imagining the Possible with Botticelli Chapter 19 Culture and
Patriarchy: The Egalitarian Vision of Woolf's Three Guineas Chapter 20
Spoken from the Heart: Apprehending the Passion of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Chapter 21 Constructing and Deconstructing the Gospel of John Part 22
Building Communities: Possibilities and Problems Chapter 23 The "Mythical
Method" as a Means to Community in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral Chapter
24 Captain Vere, Liberal Learning, and Leadership Chapter 25 "Shall I Ever
Attain My Heart's Desire?" or How a Flexible Approach to Core Texts is
Building Layers of Community at Hanover College Chapter 26 Educating for
Justice: Service Learning and Plato's Republic Part 27 Bridging the Gaps
Between the Humanities and Sciences Chapter 28 Natural Philosophy as a
Liberal Art Chapter 29 Euclid as Propadeutic Chapter 30 Stealing the Power
and Bridging the Gap: Ellison's Invisible Man as Core Text Chapter 31
Connecting Principles in Adam Smith's History of Astronomy Chapter 32
Darwin Redux: Great Texts and the Natural Sciences Revisited