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
... we need a fresh start . The central purpose of courses in the humanities is the inculca- tion of essential analytical skills that are not easy to define ( because ix they are less precise than their analogues in science ) PREFACE.
... we need a fresh start . The central purpose of courses in the humanities is the inculca- tion of essential analytical skills that are not easy to define ( because ix they are less precise than their analogues in science ) PREFACE.
第 3 頁
... essential education diet , and increasingly detailed curricula , tied to the omnipresent tests , ruled the classroom agenda . By the early 1990s many of these developments , it must be noted , had passed from controversy to virtually ...
... essential education diet , and increasingly detailed curricula , tied to the omnipresent tests , ruled the classroom agenda . By the early 1990s many of these developments , it must be noted , had passed from controversy to virtually ...
第 7 頁
... essential . Indeed , it was the lack of an ade- quate " non - Western " perspective that drove me to my self - improve- ment project in the first place . My evolution parallels that of a growing number of other historians who are ...
... essential . Indeed , it was the lack of an ade- quate " non - Western " perspective that drove me to my self - improve- ment project in the first place . My evolution parallels that of a growing number of other historians who are ...
第 8 頁
... essential Western coverage in their eagerness to convey alter- native values and to combat the undeniable tendency to emerge from history studies with a " West is best " outlook . Western history , particularly from the fifteenth ...
... essential Western coverage in their eagerness to convey alter- native values and to combat the undeniable tendency to emerge from history studies with a " West is best " outlook . Western history , particularly from the fifteenth ...
第 14 頁
... essential values , but I will not evade the 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 ...
... essential values , but I will not evade the 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 ...
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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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