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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第 ix 頁
... disciplines that study people's expressions and social institutions . My goal is to improve student understanding of how cultures operate and how societies function , by using advances in humanistic research and by rethinking some of ...
... disciplines that study people's expressions and social institutions . My goal is to improve student understanding of how cultures operate and how societies function , by using advances in humanistic research and by rethinking some of ...
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... disciplines in particular are engaged in this debate be- cause their research methods are harder to pinpoint than those of the sciences and some social sciences and because they deal most di- rectly with " values . " Innovations in ...
... disciplines in particular are engaged in this debate be- cause their research methods are harder to pinpoint than those of the sciences and some social sciences and because they deal most di- rectly with " values . " Innovations in ...
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... disciplines that form the core of much research and most teaching about the nature of society and cultures — the principal relationships among people that go beyond the strictly biological or economic . History and En- glish constitute ...
... disciplines that form the core of much research and most teaching about the nature of society and cultures — the principal relationships among people that go beyond the strictly biological or economic . History and En- glish constitute ...
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... disciplines that study human and social values and behaviors . It argues against the extreme positions currently avail- able , in part espousing a middle way but primarily searching for a distinctive alternative not adequately explored ...
... disciplines that study human and social values and behaviors . It argues against the extreme positions currently avail- able , in part espousing a middle way but primarily searching for a distinctive alternative not adequately explored ...
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... historians , including three se- nior figures who contributed to the Bradley Commission report , have urged the salience of their discipline primarily in terms of the insights it provides , not the data it amasses Introduction 9.
... historians , including three se- nior figures who contributed to the Bradley Commission report , have urged the salience of their discipline primarily in terms of the insights it provides , not the data it amasses Introduction 9.
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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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