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Rethinking liberal education

Author: Nicholas H Farnham; Adam Yarmolinsky
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Document : Conference publication   Computer File : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Drawn from a symposium jointly sponsored by the Educational Leadership Program and the American Council of Learned Societies, this work looks at the requirements of liberal education for the next century and the strategies of getting there. Rethinking Liberal Education proposes better ways of connecting the curriculum and organization of liberal art colleges with today's challenging economic and social realities.  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Conference publication, Document
Document Type: Book, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Nicholas H Farnham; Adam Yarmolinsky
ISBN: 0195097726 9780195097726 1602560552 9781602560550
OCLC Number: 31938511
Notes: Papers presented at a symposium held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., in Apr. 1994.
Description: 168 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Historical perspective / Bruce A. Kimball --
Importance of mission / Susan Resneck Pierce --
Some thoughts on curriculum and change / Leon Botstein --
Search for American liberal education / Frank F. Wong --
Restructuring for the twenty-first century / Stanley N. Katz --
Years before college / Howard Gardner --
Technology and computer literacy / Peter Lyman --
Constraints and opportunities / Adam Yarmolinsky --
Student as scholar / Ernest L. Boyer.
Responsibility: edited by Nicholas H. Farnham and Adam Yarmolinsky.
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Drawn from a symposium jointly sponsored by the Educational Leadership Program and the American Council of Learned Societies, this work looks at the requirements of liberal education for the next century and the strategies of getting there. Rethinking Liberal Education proposes better ways of connecting the curriculum and organization of liberal art colleges with today's challenging economic and social realities. The authors push for greater flexibility in the organizational structure of academic departments, and argue that faculty should play a greater role in the hard discussions that shape their institutions.

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