The Politics of Liberal EducationDarryl Gless, Barbara Herrnstein Smith Duke University Press, 1992 - 305 Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform in response to attacks by academic traditionalists. The authors here—themselves distinguished scholars and educators—share the belief that American schools, colleges, and universities can do a far better job of educating the nation’s increasingly diverse population and that the liberal arts must play a central role in providing students with the resources they need to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Within this area of consensus, however, the contributors display a wide range of approaches, illuminating the issues from the perspectives of their particular disciplines—classics, education, English, history, and philosophy, among others—and their individual experiences as teachers. Among the topics they discuss are canon-formation in the ancient world, the idea of a “common culture,” and the educational implications of such social movements as feminism, technological changes including computers and television, and intellectual developments such as “theory.” Readers interested in the controversies over American education will find this volume an informed alternative to sensationalized treatments of these issues. Contributors. Stanley Fish, Phyllis Franklin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry A. Giroux, Darryl J. Gless, Gerald Graff, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, George A. Kennedy, Bruce Kuklick, Richard A. Lanham, Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich, Alexander Nehamas, Mary Louise Pratt, Richard Rorty, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick |
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The Public the Press and the Professors | 1 |
Reflections on the Western Culture Debate at Stanford | 13 |
Democracy Technology Theory and the University Curriculum | 33 |
Teach the Conflicts | 57 |
Hirsch Literacy and the National Culture | 75 |
On Canon Formation and the AfricanAmerican Tradition | 95 |
Dreaming about Democracy | 119 |
Pedagogy in the Context of an Antihomophobic Project | 145 |
The Emergence of the Humanities | 201 |
The Academy and the Public | 213 |
Classics and Canons | 223 |
Two Cheers for the Cultural Left | 233 |
The Common Touch or One Size Fits All | 241 |
Reflections on Our Present Discontents in American Higher Education | 267 |
Notes on Contributors | 291 |
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