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Teaching nonmajors
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ISBN: 1435660153 9781435660151 9780791474921 0791474925 9780791474914 0791474917 0791478092 Year: 2008 Publisher: Albany, NY

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Teaching Nonmajors focuses on what dedicated teachers want to know—how can I teach better in the classroom? Unlike most books on teaching, this book delivers uncomplicated and immediately useful techniques and strategies for teaching required courses to nonmajors. Providing practical examples and brief anecdotes drawn from a variety of disciplines in the liberal arts and sciences, the author describes simple ways to break up lectures, how to stimulate the best discussions, the art of assignments, how to improve student ratings, and successful strategies for engaging nonmajors and for handling problem students. Teaching Nonmajors is written especially for liberal arts college and university professors at all career stages—from adjuncts and new professors, to seasoned professors looking for a fresh approach heading into a new term.

Observations upon liberal education
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ISBN: 1614878706 9781614878704 086597411X 9780865974111 0865974128 9780865974128 Year: 2003 Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Liberty Fund,

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Humanistic education : an interpretation.
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ISBN: 0884101681 Year: 1976 Publisher: Cambridge Ballinger

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The rise of universities
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ISBN: 0801470072 0801470080 9780801470080 0801490154 9780801490156 Year: 1965 Volume: CP-15 Publisher: Ithaca

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The origin and nature of the earliest universities are the subjects of this famous and witty set of lectures by the man whom eminent scholars have called "without exaggeration... the soul of the renascence of medieval studies in the United States." Great as the differences are between the earliest universities and those of today, the fact remains, says Professor Haskins, the "the university of the twentieth century is the lineal descendant of medieval Paris and Bologna." In demonstrating this fact, he brings to life the institutions, instruction, professors, and students of the Middle Ages.

On humanistic education
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ISBN: 1501717286 9781501717284 0801428386 9780801428388 0801480876 9780801480874 0080180876 9780080180878 Year: 1993 Publisher: Ithaca [N.Y.]

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Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six orations on humanistic education, offer the first statement of ideas that Vico would continue to refine throughout his life. Delivered between 1699 and 1707 to usher in the new academic year at the University of Naples, the orations are brought together here for the first time in English in an authoritative translation based on Gian Galeazzo Visconti's 1982 Latin/Italian edition.In the lectures, Vico draws liberally on the classical philosophical and legal traditions as he explores the relationship between the Greek dictum "Know thyself" and liberal education. As he sets forth the values and goals of a humanist curriculum, Vico reveals the beginnings of the anti-Cartesian position he will pursue in On the Study Methods of Our Time (1709). Also found in the orations are glimpses of Vico's later views on the theory of interpretation and on the nature of language, imagination, and human creativity, along with many themes that were to be fully developed in his magnum opus, the New Science (1744).On Humanistic Education joins a number of translations of Vico's works available in paperback from Cornell-On the Study Methods of Our Time, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, the New Science, and The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico. It will be welcomed by Vichians and their students, intellectual historians, and others in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, history and methods of education, classics, and rhetoric.


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Senderos en la niebla
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ISBN: 6078528033 9786078528035 9786078528042 6078528041 Year: 2017 Publisher: Tlaquepaque ITESO

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Wesleyan University, 1910-1970 : academic ambition and middle-class America
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ISBN: 9780819575203 0819575208 9780819575197 0819575194 Year: 2015 Publisher: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press,

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List of illustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionFisher and FiduciariesOn the Road to RecognitionMembership in the Little ThreeHolding Ground in Hard TimesWar as an Agent of ChangeA New Major American University"Hazards of New FortuneAPPENDIXESOne: Presidencies, 1831 to presentTwo: Enrollments at Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams, 1910-1990Three: Graph of Endowment Funds Per Student 1930-1990 at Wesleyan, Amherst, and WilliamsAbbreviations Used in NotesNotesIndex of First Citations Used in NotesIndex of SubjectsIndex of Persons


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Scholarship and politics in the Middle Ages : collected studies.
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ISBN: 0860780171 9780860780175 Year: 1978 Volume: 72 Publisher: London Variorum Repr.

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Beyond liberal education : essays in honour of Paul H. Hirst
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ISBN: 1134871619 1280331054 0203304829 0203031784 9780203304822 1134871600 Year: 1993 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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This collection of essays by philosophers and educationalists of international reputation, all published here for the first time, celebrates Paul Hirst's professional career. The introductory essay by Robin Barrow and Patricia White outlines Paul Hirst's career and maps the shifts in his thought about education, showing how his views on teacher education, the curriculum and educational aims are interrelated. Contributions from leading names in British and American philosophy of education cover themes ranging from the nature of good teaching to Wittgensteinian aesthetics. The collection conclud

Humanism betrayed : theory, ideology and culture in the contemporary university
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ISBN: 1282859331 9786612859335 0773569235 9780773569232 0773521860 9780773521865 0773521879 9780773521872 9781282859333 6612859334 Year: 2001 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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"In Humanism Betrayed Graham Good offers a defence of liberal humanism against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that dominate today's university. He uses the McEwen Report episode at the University of British Columbia to illustrate the current political climate in universities, showing how due process was neglected in favour of ideological inquisition." "The intellectual trends Good discusses include what he calls the New Sectarianism, which rejects individuality in favour of collective identities based on race, gender, and sexual preference; Presentism, which rejects the notion of history as a continuous narrative in favour of seeing the past as interpretable in any way that suits the political interests of the present; and a "hermeneutic of suspicion," in which literary texts are seen as masks for discreditable political motives. Good demonstrates that these trends culminate in the prison-like "carceral" vision of Michel Foucault and his followers: the view that culture is ideology and that culture does not free humans but incarcerates them. Good contrasts this view with the liberal vision of culture and society represented by Northrop Frye, concluding with an analysis of the relationship between anti-humanist theory among academics and the managerial practices of university administrations, which, he argues, neglect or reject basic humanistic values such as free individuality, aesthetic greatness, and autonomous inquiry."--Jacket

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