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 1 到 5 筆結果,共 59 筆
第 x 頁
... 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 outside the classroom need to be conveyed ...
... 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 outside the classroom need to be conveyed ...
第 xiii 頁
... to the students whose responses , comments , and enthusiasms continue to help me define a constructive path , at least for my own efforts . xiii MEANING OVER MEMORY INTRODUCTION Battles swirl around American education in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... to the students whose responses , comments , and enthusiasms continue to help me define a constructive path , at least for my own efforts . xiii MEANING OVER MEMORY INTRODUCTION Battles swirl around American education in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
第 2 頁
... least po- tential shadows on free scientific inquiry . More direct was the goals redefinition of the National Endowment for the Humanities , begun under William Bennett and substantially maintained by his succes- sor , Lynne Cheney ...
... least po- tential shadows on free scientific inquiry . More direct was the goals redefinition of the National Endowment for the Humanities , begun under William Bennett and substantially maintained by his succes- sor , Lynne Cheney ...
第 9 頁
... least key aspects of women's experience . Do less on the West , more on Africa . These appeals are correct to a degree , in that they redress the misleading narrowness of the conventional agenda , but they still view educa- tion as ...
... least key aspects of women's experience . Do less on the West , more on Africa . These appeals are correct to a degree , in that they redress the misleading narrowness of the conventional agenda , but they still view educa- tion as ...
第 14 頁
... was wrong , or at least naive . ) I was interested in modestly expanding knowledge about the past , and although some kindred historians were attaching the same goal to more partisan arguments about working - class or 14 Introduction.
... was wrong , or at least naive . ) I was interested in modestly expanding knowledge about the past , and although some kindred historians were attaching the same goal to more partisan arguments about working - class or 14 Introduction.
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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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