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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Philosophy of the curriculum. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, [1975] (OCoLC)578564593 Online version: Philosophy of the curriculum. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, [1975] (OCoLC)609081393 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sidney Hook; Paul Kurtz; Miro Todorovich; University Centers for Rational Alternatives. |
| ISBN: | 0879750510 9780879750510 |
| OCLC Number: | 1392459 |
| Notes: | "Contains the main papers and critical commentaries developed in connection with the second national conference of the University Centers for Rational Alternatives, held at Rockefeller University, New York City, on September 21-22, 1973." |
| Description: | xiii, 281 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | [1.] General education -challenge and justification: General education and the university crisis / Wm. Theodore deBary -- General education: the minimum indispensables / Sidney Hook -- On reviving liberal education -in the seventies / Joseph J. Schwab -- [2.] The humanistic disciplines: Humanism and the humanities / Frederick A. Olafson -- Justifying the humanities / Ronald Berman -- Observations on humanism and history / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- The language and methods of humanism / M.H. Abrams -- [3.] The place of science and the scientific outlook: Science, science teaching, and rationality / Gerald Holton -- In defense of scientific knowledge / Ernest Nagel -- The uses and limitations of science teaching / Michael Rabin -- Multilevel teaching of the natural sciences / Miro M. Todorovich -- [4.] Problems and dilemmas of the social sciences: The social sciences in liberal education / Nathan Glazer -- The economist among the social scientists / Charles Issawi -- Social science and general education / Thomas Sowell -- A role for social science? / Robert L. Bartley -- [5.] Reflections on the curriculum: Experiential education and revitalization of the liberal arts / John B. Stephenson and Robert F. Sexton -- Education for the future: the liberating arts / Paul Kurtz -- The desirability of pulling one's horns / Mortimer R. Kadish -- On sharpening the horns / Sidney Hook -- The humanities as scholarship and a branch of knowledge / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Questions of viability in nontraditional education / Herbert I. London -- On interdisciplinary education / Howard B. Radest -- The logic of the social sciences: to be, to do, or to describe? / Henry R. Novotny -- A proposal for a new division of the curriculum / Gray Dorsey -- On the condition of political science / Joseph Dunner -- New beginnings in general education / Aldo S. Bernardo -- Thoughts on a social-science curriculum / Feliks Gross -- The specter at the feast / Reuben Abel. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Sidney Hook, Paul Kurtz, Miro Todorovich. |
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