Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters - Rilegato

Roth, Michael S.

 
9780300175516: Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
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ISBN 10: 0300175515 ISBN 13: 9780300175516
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2014

Sinossi

Contentious debates over the benefitsor drawbacksof a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitismoften calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student’s capacity for lifelong learning was useful for science and commerce while also being essential for democracy. In this provocative contribution to the disputes, university president Michael S. Roth focuses on important moments and seminal thinkers in America’s long-running argument over vocational vs. liberal education.
 
Conflicting streams of thought flow through American intellectual history: W. E. B. DuBois’s humanistic principles of pedagogy for newly emancipated slaves developed in opposition to Booker T. Washington’s educational utilitarianism, for example. Jane Addams’s emphasis on the cultivation of empathy and John Dewey’s calls for education as civic engagement were rejected as impractical by those who aimed to train students for particular economic tasks. Roth explores these arguments (and more), considers the state of higher education today, and concludes with a stirring plea for the kind of education that has, since the founding of the nation, cultivated individual freedom, promulgated civic virtue, and instilled hope for the future.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael S. Roth is president of Wesleyan University. A professor in history and the humanities, he teaches at Wesleyan and reaches many thousands more through his open online Coursera course,The Modern and the Post-Modern.

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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2014
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300175515
ISBN 13 
9780300175516
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
228
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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