Liberal Education And Citizenship In A Free Society

Author : Justin Buckley Dyer
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826274889
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberal Education and Citizenship in a Free Society written by Justin Buckley Dyer and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The liberal arts university has been in decline since well before the virtualization of campus life, increasingly inviting public skepticism about its viability as an institution of personal, civic, and professional growth. New technologies that might have brought people together have instead frustrated the university’s capacity to foster thoughtful citizenship among tomorrow’s leaders and exacerbated socioeconomic inequalities that are poisoning America’s civic culture. With Liberal Education and Citizenship in a Free Society, a collection of 19 original essays, editors Justin Dyer and Constantine Vassiliou present the work of a diverse group of scholars to assess the value of a liberal arts education in the face of market, technological, cultural, and political forces shaping higher learning today.

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247694
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of a Liberal Education written by Fareed Zakaria and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition. The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education—how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning—precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.

Author : Daniel E. Cullen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498502474
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education written by Daniel E. Cullen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources. In this sense, liberal education is negative, questioning any and all constraints on the activity of mind. Liberal democracy, devoted to securing individual natural rights, purports to be the regime of liberty par excellence. Since both liberal education and liberal democracy aim to set individuals free, they would seem to be harmonious and mutually reinforcing. But there are reasons to doubt that liberal education can be the civic education liberal democracy needs. If liberal education is in tension with all instrumental purposes, how does it stand toward the goal of preparing the kind of citizens liberal democracy needs? The book’s contributors are critical of the way higher education typically interprets its responsibility for educating citizens, and they link those failures to academia’s neglect of certain founding principles of the American political tradition and of the traditional liberal arts ideal.

Author : American Council of Learned Societies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberal Education Re-examined written by American Council of Learned Societies and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Meira Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198295448
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demands of Liberal Education written by Meira Levinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Demands of Liberal Education analyses and applies contemporary liberal political theory to certain key problems within the field of educational theory. Levinson examines problems centred around determining appropriate educational aims, content and institutional structure and argues that liberal governments should exercise a much greater control over education than they now do. Combining theoretical with empirical research, this book will interest and provoke scholars,policy makers, educators, parents, and all citizens interested in education politics.

Author : Elizabeth Kaufer Busch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739170570
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship written by Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens who could perpetuate and improve the nation. Unfortunately, America's contemporary youth seem to lack adequate opportunities, if not also the ability or will, to critically examine the foundations of this nation. An even larger problem is an increasing ambivalence toward education in general. Stepping into this void is a diverse group of educators, intellectuals, and businesspeople, brought together in Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship to grapple with the issue of civic illiteracy and its consequences. The essays, edited by Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Jonathan W. White, force us to not only reexamine the goals of civic education in America but also those of liberal education more broadly.

Author : Cato Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948647649
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Speech and Liberal Education written by Cato Institute and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Speech and Liberal Education examines the empirical, philosophical, and remedial dimensions of the battle over free speech and academic freedom in American higher education today.

Author : Harvard University. Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Education in a Free Society written by Harvard University. Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804765770
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battleground of the Curriculum written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the current debates about the curriculum in historical context and offers considerations for the future.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book General Education in a Free Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: