Educated Person

Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

AvD. G. Mulcahy

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Liberal education has long been a fascination for scholars in a variety of disciplines and is closely associated with the idea of the educated person. Seen at one time as a matter for colleges and universities, over the years it has become central to the debate surrounding general education in high school and even the earlier grades. Yet so many and varied are the uses of the term 'liberal education' that the question arises of whether and how the idea is any longer a useful or helpful construct. In what way might it speak helpfully to educational challenges we face today? In what ways does it still speak helpfully to educational challenges we face today? In what ways might it be a guide as we search for a better way forward? These are the central questions that are addressed in this book. In doing so, the positions of three theorists—John Henry Newman, Mortimer J. Adler, and Jane Roland Martin—who have written about liberal education in a compelling way and from different perspectives are selected for close analysis. The analysis is built upon to fashion a new ideal of the educated person and a new theory of liberal education.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-03-27
Mått164 x 238 x 24 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780742561212

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What does it mean to be an educated person in the 21st century? Is the idea of liberal education relevant in today's world? For anyone who takes these questions to heart, The Educated Person is a book to read once, twice, and then again. Mulcahy's survey of the educational thought of the 19th and 20th centuries is breathtaking, his close readings of three historical theories of liberal education that have never before been juxtaposed are unparalleled, and the new paradigm of liberal education he proposes will be a focus of scholarly attention for years to come.