Diana Glyer, David L. Weeks

The Liberal Arts in Higher Education

Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Possibilities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Liberal Arts in Higher Education launches an institutional effort to establish a shared definition and to clarify the contours of the liberal arts and liberal education by extending centuries-old dialogue to the coeducational, Christian campus of Azusa Pacific University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9780761811640
• ISBN-10: 0761811648
• Artikelnr.: 22203574

Autorenporträt

By Diana Glyer and David L. Weeks - Contributions by Gayle Beebe; Richard Christopherson; John Culp; Christopher Flannery; James Hedges; Rosemary Liegler; Roxane Lulofs; David Miyahara; Rae Wineland Newstad; Daniel C. Palm; Maximo Rossi; Dennis O. Royse;

Inhaltsangabe

chapter 1 Introduction; The Classical Liberal Arts Tradition chapter 2
Modern and Postmodern Challenges to Liberal Education chapter 3 Integrating
Liberal Arts and Professional Education chapter 4 Re-imagining a Distinctly
Christian Liberal Arts Education chapter 5 John Henry Newman's The Idea of
a University chapter 6 Robert M. Hutchin's The Higher Learning in America
chapter 7 The Harvard Committee's General Education in a Free Society and
the College of the University of Chicago's The Idea and Practice of General
Education chapter 8 David Wagner's The Seven Liberal Arts in the Middle
Ages chapter 9 Ernest L. Boyer and Arthur Levine's A Quest for Common
Learning: The Aims of General Education chapter 10 Allan Bloom's The
Closing of the American Mind chapter 11 Gary E. Miller's The Meaning of
General Education chapter 12 Jerry G. Gaff's New Life for the College
Curriculum chapter 13 Charles Anderson's Prescribing the Life of the Mind
chapter 14 Bruce Kimball's Orators and Philosophers and Robert Orrill's The
Condition of American Liberal Education chapter 15 Bibliography chapter 16
Index