The Politics of liberal education / Darryl J. Gless and Barbara Herrnstein Smith, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gless, Darryl J., 1945-

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Humanistic--United States--Congresses.

Education, Humanistic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Controversy over what role "the great books" should play in college curricula and questions about who defines "the literary canon" are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform in response to attacks by academic traditionalists. The authors here-themselves distinguished scholars and educators-share the belief that American schools, colleges, and universities can do a far better job of educating the nation's increasingly diverse population and that the liberal arts mu

Contents:

Introduction : The public, the press, and the professors

Humanities for the future : reflections on the Western culture debate at Stanford / Mary Louise Pratt

The extraordinary convergence : democracy, technology, theory, and the university curriculum / Richard A. Lanham

Teach the conflicts / Gerald Graff

Cult-lit : Hirsch, literacy, and the "national culture" / Barbara Herrnstein Smith

The master's pieces : on canon formation and the African-American tradition / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Liberal arts education and the struggle for public life : dreaming about democracy / Henry A. Giroux

Pedagogy in the context of an antihomophobic project / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Serious watching / Alexander Nehamas

From ivory tower to Tower of Babel/ / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich

The emergence of the humanities / Bruce Kuklick

The academy and the public / Phyllis Franklin

Classics and canons / George A. Kennedy

Two cheers for the cultural Left / Richard Rorty

The common touch, or, one size fits all / Stanley Fish

Against nostalgia : reflections on our present discontents in American higher education / Francis Oakley.

Notes:

Revised papers originally presented at a conference held in 1988 at Duke University and the University of North Carolina.

All but two essays previously published as vol. 89, no. 1 (winter 1990) of the South Atlantic quarterly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613062383

9781283062381

1283062380

9780822381747

0822381745

OCLC:

191222433