Title: Cultivating humanity
First published: 1997
Description: How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such "citizens of the world" in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies.

Drawing on Socrates and the Stoics, Nussbaum establishes three core values of liberal education - critical self-examination, the ideal of the world citizen, and the development of the narrative imagination. Then, taking us into classrooms and campuses across the nation, including prominent research universities, small independent colleges, and religious institutions, she shows how these values are (and in some instances are not) being embodied in particular courses.

She defends such burgeoning subject areas as gender, minority, and gay studies against charges of moral relativism and low standards, and underscores their dynamic and fundamental contribution to critical reasoning and world citizenship.
Subjects: Sociological aspects, Curriculum change, Higher Education, Sociological aspects of Universities and colleges, Humanistic Education, Social aspects, Social aspects of Higher education, Education, Humanistic, Case studies, Education, Higher, Universities and colleges, Education, higher, social aspects, Universities and colleges, united states, Continuing Education, Educazione multiculturale, Éducation humaniste, Cas, Études de, Enseignement supérieur, Aspect social, Universités, Aspect sociologique, Programmes d'études, Changements, Istruzione superiore, Discipline umanistiche, Insegnamento, Hoger onderwijs, Klassieke vorming, Filosofia da educação, Ensino superior (aspectos sociais;aspectos culturais), Currículo de ensino superior, Education, humanistic--united states--case studies, Education, higher--social aspects--case studies, Education, higher--social aspects--united states--case studies, Universities and colleges--sociological aspects--case studies, Universities and colleges--united states--sociological aspects--case studies, Curriculum change--case studies, Curriculum change--united states--case studies, Education, continuing, Lc1011 .n87 1997, 370.11/2
Places: United States
LC classification: LC1011 .N87 1997