Title: Powers of the mind : the reinvention of liberal learning in America /
Authors: Levine, Donald Nathan, 1931-2015.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Education, Higher Curricula United States; Curriculum change United States.; Education, Higher Philosophy; Education, Higher Curricula United States.
Abstract: "It is one thing to lament the financial pressures put on universities, quite another to face up to the poverty of resources for thinking about what universities should do when they purport to offer a liberal education. In Powers of the Mind, former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine enriches those resources by proposing fresh ways to think about liberal learning with ideas more suited to our times."--Jacket.
Contents: The place of liberal learning -- The movement for general education -- The making of a curricular tradition -- Dewey and Hutchins at Chicago -- Richard McKeon : architecton of human powers -- Joseph Schwab's assault on facile teaching -- What is educational about the study of civilizations? -- New goals for the liberal curriculum -- Goals for the liberal curriculum I: powers of prehension -- Goals for the liberal curriculum II: powers of expression -- New ways of framing pedagogy -- My experiments in teaching powers.