The liberal arts tradition : a documentary history / Bruce A. Kimball.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kimball, Bruce A., 1951-

Association for Core Texts and Courses

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Humanistic--History.

Education, Humanistic.

Education, Humanistic--United States--History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (522 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2010.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Based upon the author's twenty-five years of experience leading seminars concerning the history of liberal education, this collection presents a uniquely comprehensive and salient set of documents, ranging from Plato to Martha Nussbaum, while incorporating the neglected portrayal and discussion of women within the history of the liberal arts.

Contents:

Introduction. The disputed origins

Section 1. Debates in antiquity

Section 2. Late antiquity and middle ages : Christian appropriation, codification, and female imagery

Section 3. In the modernus university, 1100s-1500

Section 4. The humanist and collegiate traditions, 1350-1600

Section 5. Humanist, scholastic, and sectarian strains in the colonial college

Section 6. Intellectual and social challenges to the college, 1790s-1850s

Section 7. Struggle between the university and the college, 1860s-1900s

Section 8. Experimentation and search for coherence, 1910s-1930s

Section 9. The "Emerging Curricular Blueprint" of the mid-twentieth century

Section 10. Approaching the past in the new millennium.

Notes:

Published in cooperation with the Association for Core Texts and Courses.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

0-7618-7626-X

0-7618-7929-3

0-7618-5133-X

OCLC:

851315909