Core Texts, Community, and Culture: Working Together for Liberal Education - Couverture souple

 
9780761849360: Core Texts, Community, and Culture: Working Together for Liberal Education
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 076184936X ISBN 13 : 9780761849360
Editeur : UPA, 2009

Synopsis

Throughout its existence, the Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) has asserted its commitment to the need for humans to come together to speak about the scientific, the political, and the artistic in order to live together in an enlightened fashion. In 2004, ACTCs Tenth Annual Conference convened to re-affirm and re-examine the value of serious reading and discussion focused through core texts. Participants articulated the various ways by which core text education in the liberal arts constructs and supports different expressions of community on college campuses around the world. Presenters asked whether it is better to contemplate the arts simply as expressions of cultures and traditions or to cultivate them, taking the risk that what is valued in artistic expressions might be changed by the inventions of teachers and the students they encourage. The essays collected here reflect the responses of the diverse group of ACTCs members, all of whom support the idea of liberal core text education with the self-conscious awareness of the challenges facing liberal education in the modern academy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ronald J. Weber has been the director of the humanities (formerly Western Civilization) program at the University of Texas at El Paso since 1997. His Ph.D. is in ancient history from the University of Wisconsin.
J. Scott Lee has been the executive director and co-founder of the Association for Core Texts and Courses since 1994. His Ph.D. is from the Committee on the History of Culture, the University of Chicago.

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Éditeur
UPA
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
076184936X
ISBN 13 
9780761849360
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Éditeur
Weber Ronald J.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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