Powers of the mind the reinvention of liberal learning in America /

Main Author: Levine, Donald Nathan, 1931-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The place of liberal learning
  • The movement for general education
  • The making of a curricular tradition
  • Dewey and Hutchins at Chicago
  • Richard McKeon : architecton of human powers
  • Joseph Schwab's assault on facile teaching
  • What is educational about the study of civilizations?
  • New goals for the liberal curriculum
  • Goals for the liberal curriculum I: powers of prehension
  • Goals for the liberal curriculum II: powers of expression
  • New ways of framing pedagogy
  • My experiments in teaching powers.