Substance, Judgment, and Evaluation

Patrick T. Flynn; Jean-Marie Kauth; John Kevin Doyle; Scott J. Lee

doi:10.5771/9781461664451

Summary

Substance, Judgment and Evaluation: Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education selectively presents the thoughts of scholars and teachers of liberal arts, core text education on how their programs formulate and advance a "value-centered" education. What emerges from this selection is the wide scope of core text programs underlying the semantic intention of words such as "value-centered," "judgment," or even "liberal arts" or "collegiate" and "colleague." This volume records the cooperation and thoughtful consideration of faculty from a wide range of higher education institutions - research universities, comprehensive universities, colleges, and community colleges - who have chosen to come together to form such programs across North America. This volume should be of value to any dean, director, or faculty member who seeks to work with colleagues and texts across disciplines to form a coherent undergraduate program of study within general education.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5017-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-6445-1
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 254
Product type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Introduction No access
1. Liberal Learning, Chicago Style: Reflections on a Founding Tradition in Liberal Arts Education No access
2. Plato and the Ideal of Liberal Education No access
3. John Henry Newman on Liberal Learning and Openness to the Mystery of Creation in The Idea of a University No access
4. Learning and Life No access
5. Plato on Educating Rulers No access
6. Beatrice and Pearl No access
7. Of Stomachs and Gold Teeth: The Limits of Dehumanization in Elie Wiesel's Night No access
8. Albert Camus's The Plague: Finding Meaning in a Post-Modern World No access
9. Memory is Necessary for Freedom No access
10. Core Texts and Context: Reading Poems of World War I in 2005-2006 No access
1. Non-Canonical Core Texts Reflections from Experience: Liberal Arts Education in a Columbian Technological University No access
2. Sulwan Al-Muta': The Wisdom of Stories for Leaders No access
3. Core Texts as Critical History: How Studying Works by Dead White Men Can Be Radical No access
4. Reading Bob Dylan's Chronicles as a Required Freshman Text No access
5. "Be Not Afraid of My Body": Whitman's Courageous Corporeality No access
6. The Selective Transformation of Reality in Life of Pi: A Model for Artful Living No access
7. On the Waterfront: Claude McKay's Banjo as a Core Text of African Diasporan Literature No access
8. "I Know Now How History Is Made": Wole Soyinka and the Drama of Existence No access
1. Copenhagen, Bohr, & Heisenberg: How Did We Learn to Love the Bomb? No access
2. Galileo in Kansas: The Strange Timeliness of the Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina No access
3. Foundations of the Natural Sciences: "Great Books" Course at Carthage College No access
4. "Analogy to What is Old": Francis Bacon's Four Idols Today No access
5. Arctic Dreams and Nightmares No access
6. Teaching Scientists to See: A Possible Bridge between C.P. Snow's Two Cultures No access
7. "Rocks of Ages: A Critique of Stephen Jay Gould's Thesis on the Relationship Between Science and Religion No access
8. Teach the Science Not the Controversy: Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, and Intelligent Design No access
1. Michelangelo and the Copernican Revolution No access
2. Teaching Humanities through The Milton Moment No access
3. Using Core Texts to Promote Students' Critical Thinking Skills No access
4. The Rule of St. Benedict as a Business Core Text No access
5. Engaging the Text: Reading the Opening Stanza of Dante's Inferno With Alumni in a "Great Books and Midlife" Weekend Course No access
6. How To Understand A Primary Source: Undergraduates And Ancient Biography: Appraising Athanasius's Life of Antony No access