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Powers of the mind : the reinvention of liberal learning in America / Donald N. Levine.

By: Levine, Donald Nathan, 1931-.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: xv, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0226475549 (pbk.); 9780226475547 (pbk.).Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Curricula -- United States | Curriculum change -- United States | Education, Higher -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 378.012
Contents:
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.
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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.

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