TY - BOOK AU - Levine,Donald Nathan TI - Powers of the mind: the reinvention of liberal learning in America SN - 0226475549 (pbk.) U1 - 378.012 PY - 2006/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Education, Higher KW - Curricula KW - United States KW - Curriculum change KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-281) and index; Preface. - Acknowledgments. - Prologue: Missing resources in higher education. - Part I: Crises of liberal learning in the modern world. - 1. The place of liberal learning. - 2. The movement for general education. - 3. The making of a curricular tradition. - 4. Dewey and Hutchins at Chicago. - 5. Richard McKeon : architecton of human powers. - 6. Joseph Schwab's assault on facile teaching. - 7. What is educational about the study of civilizations? - 8. New goals for the liberal curriculum. - 9. Goals for the liberal curriculum I: powers of prehension. - 10. Goals for the liberal curriculum II: powers of expression. - 11. New ways of framing pedagogy. - 12. My experiments in teaching powers. - Epilogue. - Appendix. - References. - Index ER -