Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance

Herausgeber: Chamlee-Wright, Emily

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Concerns over affordability and accountability have tended to direct focus away from the central aims of liberal learning, such as preparing minds for free inquiry and inculcating the habits of mind, practical skills, and values necessary for effective participation in civil society. The contributors to this volume seek to understand better what it is that can be done on a day-to-day basis within institutions of liberal learning that shape the habits and practices of civil society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415708326
• ISBN-10: 041570832X
• Artikelnr.: 40813202

Autorenporträt

Emily Chamlee-Wright is Provost and Dean of the College at Washington College, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Cultivating the Habits of Self-Governance in the Classroom 1.
Knowledge and Community in the Undergraduate Classroom 2. On "Strongly
Fortified Minds": Self-restraint and cooperation in the discussion
tradition 3. Teaching the Art of Speaking Across Ideological Paradigms
Part II: Place, Community and Context: Cultivating the habits of
self-governance beyond the traditional classroom 4. More than
Community-Based Learning: Practicing the liberal arts 5. Developing the Art
of Self-Governance: Teaching the role of place in associative life Part
III: The Generative Power of Social Abrasion and Social Spaces 6. The
Essential Role of Abrasion in Developing Healthy Institutions of Liberal
Learning 7. Communities of Liberal Learning and Social Spaces Part IV:
Self-Governing Norms and Practices Across the Academy 8. Polycentricity and
the Principles of Effective Co-Governance: What the Bloomington School can
teach us 9. Meaningful Change Comes from the Shop Floor: Generating,
growing and governing in liberal education 10. Academic Freedom as a Basis
for Self-Governance