ERIC Number: ED418635
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: 351
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ISBN: ISBN-0-87447-589-9
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Education and Democracy: Re-imagining Liberal Learning in America.
Orrill, Robert, Ed.
Essays on democracy and liberal education include: "Re-imagining Liberal Education" (Louis Menand); "From Discipline-Based to Problem-Centered Learning" (Ellen Condliffe Lagemann); "Naming Pragmatic Liberal Education" (Bruce A. Kimball); "Cosmopolitan Pragmatism: Deliberative Democracy and Higher Education" (James T. Kloppenberg); "Pragmatism, Idealism, and the Aims of Liberal Education" (Charles W. Anderson); "Innovation in the Liberal Arts and Sciences" (Douglas C. Bennett); "Professing the Liberal Arts" (Lee. S. Shulman); "The American Tradition of Aspirational Democracy" (Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich); "Liberal Education and Democracy: The Case for Pragmatism" (Alexander W. Astin); "Dewey versus Hutchins: The Next Round" (Thomas Ehrlich); "The Stratification of Cultures as the Barrier to Democratic Pluralism" (Troy Duster); "Biology, Pragmatism, and Liberal Education" (Ernst Mayr); "Liberal Education in Cyberia" (Peter Lyman); "Placing Liberal Education in the Service of Democracy" (Nicholas H. Farnham); "Education for a World Lived in Common with Others" (Lee Knefelcamp, Carol Schneider); and "Anchoring the Future in the Past: 1931-1997" (Rita Bornstein). (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, College Role, Democracy, Democratic Values, Educational Innovation, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Information Technology, Intellectual Disciplines, Liberal Arts, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Sciences, Technological Advancement
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Publication Type: Collected Works - General
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY.
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