Education and democracy
Subtitle: re-imagining liberal learning in America
By: Robert Orrill, executive editor.
Contributors: Orrill, Robert.; College Entrance Examination Board.
Publisher: College Entrance Examination Board
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Education, Higher -- United States; Education, Humanistic -- United States; Education, Higher -- United States -- Curricula
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Editor's prologue / Robert Orrill; title: Re-imagining liberal education / Louis Menand; title: From discipline-based to problem-centered learning / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann; title: Naming pragmatic liberal education / Bruce A. Kimball; title: Cosmopolitan pragmatism : deliberative democracy and higher education / James T. Kloppenberg; title: Pragmatism, idealism, and the aims of liberal education / Charles W. Anderson; title: Innovation in the liberal arts and sciences / Douglas C. Bennett; title: Professing the liberal arts / Lee S. Shulman; title: The American tradition of aspirational democracy / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich; title: Liberal education and democracy : the case for pragmatism / Alexander W. Astin; title: Dewey versus Hutchins : the next round / Thomas Ehrlich; title: The stratification of cultures as the barrier to democratic pluralism / Troy Duster; title: Biology, pragmatism, and liberal education / Ernst Mayr; title: Liberal education in Cyberia / Peter Lyman; title: Placing liberal education in the service of democracy / Micholas H. Farnham; title: Education for a world lived in common with others / Lee Knefelkamp; title: Afterword : anchoring the future in the past : 1931-1997 / Rita Bornstein.