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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... challenge is obvious , as is the urgency . A somewhat similar moment existed twenty - five years ago , the last time the nation de- bated its meanings and recognized the need to redefine humanis- tic teaching in the process . This mood ...
... challenge is obvious , as is the urgency . A somewhat similar moment existed twenty - five years ago , the last time the nation de- bated its meanings and recognized the need to redefine humanis- tic teaching in the process . This mood ...
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... challenge . The American Association of Colleges won NEH support for a Cultural Legacies project that , although not entirely monochrome , focused largely on disseminating core curricula that touted classical great works and the values ...
... challenge . The American Association of Colleges won NEH support for a Cultural Legacies project that , although not entirely monochrome , focused largely on disseminating core curricula that touted classical great works and the values ...
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... challenge — to civilize the savages by introducing them to Western and democratic values . History , wrote one critic of recent scholarship , must provide students with examples of heroic behav- ior , so that students could in turn ...
... challenge — to civilize the savages by introducing them to Western and democratic values . History , wrote one critic of recent scholarship , must provide students with examples of heroic behav- ior , so that students could in turn ...
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... challenging one — is to determine what we can do better , not to indulge in misguided nostalgia . As a book of opinion — for I make no pretense of presenting yet another set of formal findings about the educational process — what ...
... challenging one — is to determine what we can do better , not to indulge in misguided nostalgia . As a book of opinion — for I make no pretense of presenting yet another set of formal findings about the educational process — what ...
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... challenge . When I began my own scholarly career in the humanities , I did not feel engaged in an overtly political agenda . ( Radicals and some conservatives might easily point out that I was wrong , or at least naive . ) I was ...
... challenge . When I began my own scholarly career in the humanities , I did not feel engaged in an overtly political agenda . ( Radicals and some conservatives might easily point out that I was wrong , or at least naive . ) I was ...
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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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