Memory, Invention, and Delivery (eBook)

Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge and Culture in Liberal Arts Education for the Future. Selected Proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses

Richard Dagger, J. Scott Lee, Christopher Metress (Herausgeber)

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2016
180 Seiten
Upa (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6732-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. All readers will benefit from the insights of this volume the historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education.

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In a time when liberal arts education is increasingly under attack, this volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. Future citizens, businesswomen and men, scientists, artists and those working in educational or social programs will all benefit from the insights of this volume into historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education.

Autor

Richard Dagger is E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond, where he teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. In addition to numerous articles in political and legal philosophy, he is coauthor of Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal and author of Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism and of the forthcoming Playing Fair: Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment. Christopher Metress is University Professor and Associate Provost for Academics at Samford University, where teaches courses in literature, history, and the western intellectual tradition. His essays have appeared such journals as the Southern Review, Studies in the Novel, and the African American Review, and he serves on the editorial board of English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920. He has published three books, most recently Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (co-edited with Harriet Pollack).J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and the Series editor of ACTC Proceedings

Inhalt

Richard Dagger, Christopher Metress, and J. Scott LeeRichard KamberWilfred M. McClayGrant D. Venerable Steven TurleyMolly Brigid FlynnJames J. DonovanBenjamin Smith Storm BaileyDavid Dolence Bryan Johnson Karl Schudt Andrew TerjesenSatyricon Michael J. Mordine Laurie M. Johnson Bagby Steven EpleyNeil G. RobertsonJames Roney Don Juan as Free-Thinker Diane Fourny

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.2.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Association for Core Texts and Courses
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: arts and sciences • core texts • General Education • Humanities • Interdisciplinary education • Liberal arts education • Liberal Education • Western civilization
• ISBN-10: 0-7618-6732-5 / 0761867325
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-6732-6 / 9780761867326