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
... important to stake out a new balance between traditional coverage of Western culture and our urgent need to understand African and Asian cul- tures , and the following chapters will venture another statement in this area . It is valid ...
... important to stake out a new balance between traditional coverage of Western culture and our urgent need to understand African and Asian cul- tures , and the following chapters will venture another statement in this area . It is valid ...
第 x 頁
... of our past and of the cultures around us is even more intense than in the troubled 1960s . Equally important , the resources made avail- able by advances in humanistic scholarship are immensely richer than X Preface.
... of our past and of the cultures around us is even more intense than in the troubled 1960s . Equally important , the resources made avail- able by advances in humanistic scholarship are immensely richer than X Preface.
第 xiii 頁
... important to me , and I'm grateful to the officials and teachers in- volved with projects there , including Larry Beaber , James Herbert , Robert Orrill , and Robert Blackey . Two teachers associated with Board programs helped show me ...
... important to me , and I'm grateful to the officials and teachers in- volved with projects there , including Larry Beaber , James Herbert , Robert Orrill , and Robert Blackey . Two teachers associated with Board programs helped show me ...
第 3 頁
... importance , and they related — as too few observers noted — to the more public argu- ments at the university level . Thus , if colleges owed their students a prolonged exposure to the great canons of Western literature and history , so ...
... importance , and they related — as too few observers noted — to the more public argu- ments at the university level . Thus , if colleges owed their students a prolonged exposure to the great canons of Western literature and history , so ...
第 5 頁
... important parts of the social sci- ences , and interdisciplinary connections in research methods and in theory will play an important role in my assessments . The disci- plines share the task of finding newly solid bases on which to ...
... important parts of the social sci- ences , and interdisciplinary connections in research methods and in theory will play an important role in my assessments . The disci- plines share the task of finding newly solid bases on which to ...
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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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