The liberal arts in America
By: edited by Lee Trepanier
Contributors: Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values
Publisher: Southern Utah University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cedar City, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780935615364
Subjects: Humanistic Education; Higher Education
Notes: "The essays published here were originally presented as part of the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values Symposium on Democracy and Rhetoric at Southern Utah University on October 19-21, 2011"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Going straight to the source : how primary source-based liberal education makes better students and better citizens  -- David [i.e., Devon] Atchison; title: Nurturing the historical imagination : teaching history within the liberal arts  -- Phillip Hamilton; title: The university stands in loco parentis  -- Susan Hanssen; title: Only collecting(ing) the fragments : the inadequacy of an entirely secular approach to the liberal arts  -- Bryce Christensen; title: Teaching for cosmopolis : authentic human subjectivity and the liberal arts today  -- R. J. Snell; title: Democracy, education and leadership  -- Gerson Moreno-Riano; title: Statesmanship and democracy in a global and comparative context  -- Gerson Moreno-Riano, Lee Trepanier, Phillip Hamilton; title: Teaching the American political tradition in a global context -- Gerson Moreno-Riano, Lee Trepanier, Phillip Hamilton.