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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Donald N., 1931-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Curricula--United States.

Education, Higher.

Curriculum change--United States.

Curriculum change.

Education, Higher--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786611965846

9781281965844

1281965847

9780226475783

0226475786

OCLC:

476228955