The liberal arts tradition : a documentary history /
Based upon the author's twenty-five years of experience leading seminars concerning the history of liberal education, this collection presents a uniquely comprehensive and salient set of documents, ranging from Plato to Martha Nussbaum, while incorporating the neglected portrayal and discussion...
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Lanham, Md. :
University Press of America,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The disputed origins
- Section 1. Debates in antiquity
- Section 2. Late antiquity and middle ages : Christian appropriation, codification, and female imagery
- Section 3. In the modernus university, 1100s-1500
- Section 4. The humanist and collegiate traditions, 1350-1600
- Section 5. Humanist, scholastic, and sectarian strains in the colonial college
- Section 6. Intellectual and social challenges to the college, 1790s-1850s
- Section 7. Struggle between the university and the college, 1860s-1900s
- Section 8. Experimentation and search for coherence, 1910s-1930s
- Section 9. The "Emerging Curricular Blueprint" of the mid-twentieth century
- Section 10. Approaching the past in the new millennium.