Meaning Over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of Culture and HistoryUNC Press Books, 1993 - 254 頁 In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not only of what we teach but also of why and how we teach it. While conservatives defend a museum-like humanities curriculum, their o |
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... argues that they are attainable or at least open to measurable advancement — if the humanities are understood not primarily as guardians of unchang- ing truths but as sources of new knowledge . The gains achieved by the humanities ...
... argues that they are attainable or at least open to measurable advancement — if the humanities are understood not primarily as guardians of unchang- ing truths but as sources of new knowledge . The gains achieved by the humanities ...
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... arguments against the mother's claims might be " hurtful " to the group in ques- tion . Several colleges urged a new spelling , womyn , to make the sep- arateness and equality of the genders crystal clear.1 But it takes two sides to ...
... arguments against the mother's claims might be " hurtful " to the group in ques- tion . Several colleges urged a new spelling , womyn , to make the sep- arateness and equality of the genders crystal clear.1 But it takes two sides to ...
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... arguing that new scholarly inter- ests like social history should be jettisoned or at least downgraded in favor of reexaminations of the great traditions of American and Western society , primarily meaning official political experience ...
... arguing that new scholarly inter- ests like social history should be jettisoned or at least downgraded in favor of reexaminations of the great traditions of American and Western society , primarily meaning official political experience ...
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... argument was joined a more familiar but unquestionably anguished lament about how few of the necessary facts of educated life students seemed to know . Not only were they unfamiliar with most of the items on the new peda- gogical ...
... argument was joined a more familiar but unquestionably anguished lament about how few of the necessary facts of educated life students seemed to know . Not only were they unfamiliar with most of the items on the new peda- gogical ...
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... argument without great difficulty . This is a book , then , about defining teaching goals and appropri- ate ... argues against the extreme positions currently avail- able , in part espousing a middle way but primarily searching for a ...
... argument without great difficulty . This is a book , then , about defining teaching goals and appropri- ate ... argues against the extreme positions currently avail- able , in part espousing a middle way but primarily searching for a ...
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The Question of Urgency The Issues in Perspective | 18 |
Innovations in the Humanities Before the Crisis | 30 |
Sacred Cows in Humanities Teaching and How They Got Grazing Rights | 60 |
Answering the Canon Fire The Debate Miscast | 95 |
Clearing the Decks for Creative Planning | 110 |
Education The Central Mission of the Humanities | 131 |
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