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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809432203321

Autore

Levine Donald Nathan <1931->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006

ISBN

1-281-96584-7

9786611965846

0-226-47578-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages)

Disciplina

378/.012

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Curricula - United States

Curriculum change - United States

Education, Higher - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-281) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

In Powers of the Mind, former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine considers the liberal education that our universities purport to offer, finds it lacking, and in response proposes fresh and invigorating ways to think about liberal learning that are more suited to our times. Levine begins by defining basic values of modernity and then considering pertinent curricular principles. The principles he favors are powers of the mind—disciplines understood as fields of study defined less by their subject matter than by the distinct intellectual capacities they embody. To illustrate, Levine dra