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The condition of American liberal education : pragmatism and a changing tradition / an essay by Bruce A. Kimball with commentaries and responses ; Robert Orrill, executive editor.
LIBRA LC1011 .K557 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kimball, Bruce A., 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Humanistic--United States.
- Education, Humanistic.
- United States.
- Pragmatism.
- Education, Higher--United States--Philosophy.
- Education, Higher.
- Philosophy.
- Education, Higher--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 300 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : College Entrance Examination Board, [1995]
- Contents:
- Toward pragmatic liberal education / Bruce A. Kimball
- Possibilities for remaking liberal education at the century's end / Stanley N. Katz
- Historical perspective and our current educational discontents / Francis Oakley
- Marketing postmodernism / Louis Menand
- Knowledge, America, and liberal education / Julie Thompson Klein
- Pragmatic missions and the struggle for liberal education in state colleges and universities / June K. Phillips
- Pragmatism won't save us but it can help / Richard M. Freeland
- Pragmatism, liberal education, and multiculturalism: utilizing the "master's tools" to restructure the "master's house" for diversity / Shirley Hune
- Four appreciative queries / Eva T.H. Brann
- Beyond disciplinary hierarchies in higher education / Gregson Davis.
- On the "purposes" of liberal education / W.B. Carnochan
- Response to Bruce Kimball's "Toward pragmatic liberal education" / Edmund W. Gordon
- After pragmatism, what? / Nicholas H. Farnham
- Pragmatism: plausible or panacean? / John H. Morrow, Jr.
- Seeking pragmatic essentialism / Douglas W. Foard
- Pragmatism, liberal education, and the transformation of knowing / Douglas Sloan
- Pragmatism, scientific method, and liberal education / Sandra B. Rosenthal
- Wishful thinking: on the convergence of pragmatism and liberal education / Robert B. Westbrook
- Funeral rites / David M. Steiner
- Needed: a pedagogy please! / Thomas F. Green
- No consensus in sight / Alan Ryan
- Because I like the questions / Arturo Madrid
- Prognostication and doubt / Ellen T. Harris.
- Reckoning versus reasoning: a struggle for the soul of mathematics / Susan L. Forman and Lynn Arthur Steen
- The educated person, curriculum content standards and pragmatic liberal education / Miles Myers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kimball, Bruce A., 1951- Condition of American liberal education.
- ISBN:
- 0874475244
- 9780874475241
- 0874475228
- 9780874475227
- OCLC:
- 33928540
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