Core Texts, Community, and Culture

Working Together for Liberal Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

AvRonald J. Weber,Scott J. Lee,Mary Buzan,Anne Marie Flanagan,Douglas Hadley

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Throughout its existence, the Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) has asserted its commitment to the need for humans to come together to speak about the scientific, the political, and the artistic in order to live together in an enlightened fashion. In 2004, ACTC's Tenth Annual Conference convened to re-affirm and re-examine the value of serious reading and discussion focused through core texts. Participants articulated the various ways by which core text education in the liberal arts constructs and supports different expressions of community on college campuses around the world. Presenters asked whether it is better to contemplate the arts simply as expressions of cultures and traditions or to cultivate them, taking the risk that what is valued in artistic expressions might be changed by the inventions of teachers and the students they encourage. The essays collected here reflect the responses of the diverse group of ACTC's members, all of whom support the idea of liberal core text education with the self-conscious awareness of the challenges facing liberal education in the modern academy.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-12-11
Mått155 x 233 x 16 mm
Vikt338 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAssociation for Core Texts and Courses
Antal sidor224
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761849360

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Ronald J. Weber has been the director of the humanities (formerly Western Civilization) program at the University of Texas at El Paso since 1997. His Ph.D. is in ancient history from the University of Wisconsin.J. Scott Lee has been the executive director and co-founder of the Association for Core Texts and Courses since 1994. His Ph.D. is from the Committee on the History of Culture, the University of Chicago.

Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Community: History and FormsChapter 3 Humanizing the Technological Vision: Core Learning and the Relation of the Sciences and HumanitiesChapter 4 Plato's Crito and the Development of CommunityChapter 5 Augustine's Intellectual ConversionPart 6 Views of CommunityChapter 7 Beowulf: The Other EpicChapter 8 Montesquieu and the Problematic Character of Modern CitizenshipChapter 9 Kleos and Kitsch: Postcard Patriotism in Derek Walcott's OmerosChapter 10 Lyric and the Skill of LifeChapter 11 Achieving (Comm) Unity in Difference Through the Core TextPart 12 Literary Experiences of CommunityChapter 13 The Music of Democracy: Core Values in Core TextsChapter 14 Nature and Tyranny in Aristophanes' Birds: The Real Meal DealChapter 15 Lyrics Breath: Taking Seriously the Trope of Immortality in Shakespeare's SonnetsChapter 16 Whose Underground?: Notes on Locating DostoyevskyPart 17 Community: New PerspectivesChapter 18 Art, Integrating Disciplinse, and Liberal Education: Imagining the Possible with BotticelliChapter 19 Culture and Patriarchy: The Egalitarian Vision of Woolf's Three GuineasChapter 20 Spoken from the Heart: Apprehending the Passion of Harriet Beecher StoweChapter 21 Constructing and Deconstructing the Gospel of JohnPart 22 Building Communities: Possibilities and ProblemsChapter 23 The "Mythical Method" as a Means to Community in Eliot's Murder in the CathedralChapter 24 Captain Vere, Liberal Learning, and LeadershipChapter 25 "Shall I Ever Attain My Heart's Desire?" or How a Flexible Approach to Core Texts is Building Layers of Community at Hanover CollegeChapter 26 Educating for Justice: Service Learning and Plato's RepublicPart 27 Bridging the Gaps Between the Humanities and SciencesChapter 28 Natural Philosophy as a Liberal ArtChapter 29 Euclid as PropadeuticChapter 30 Stealing the Power and Bridging the Gap: Ellison's Invisible Man as Core TextChapter 31 Connecting Principles in Adam Smith's History of AstronomyChapter 32 Darwin Redux: Great Texts and the Natural Sciences Revisited