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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... past . Opportunities are greater now , if we can place partisan quarrels in the proper perspective . The national search for an understanding of our past and of the cultures around us is even more intense than in the troubled 1960s ...
... past . Opportunities are greater now , if we can place partisan quarrels in the proper perspective . The national search for an understanding of our past and of the cultures around us is even more intense than in the troubled 1960s ...
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... past decade . Experiences with the College Board and the Educational Testing Service have been important to me , and I'm grateful to the officials and teachers in- volved with projects there , including Larry Beaber , James Herbert ...
... past decade . Experiences with the College Board and the Educational Testing Service have been important to me , and I'm grateful to the officials and teachers in- volved with projects there , including Larry Beaber , James Herbert ...
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... past . By the mid - 1980s , several individual scholars had joined the crusade , lamenting the dilution of attention to the great classics of Western philosophy and literature or the great men of American democracy and producing lists ...
... past . By the mid - 1980s , several individual scholars had joined the crusade , lamenting the dilution of attention to the great classics of Western philosophy and literature or the great men of American democracy and producing lists ...
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... past was irrelevant to this high purpose and might even dilute it . To the civilizing argument was joined a more familiar but unquestionably anguished lament about how few of the necessary facts of educated life students seemed to know ...
... past was irrelevant to this high purpose and might even dilute it . To the civilizing argument was joined a more familiar but unquestionably anguished lament about how few of the necessary facts of educated life students seemed to know ...
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... past , I was converted some years ago to a world history approach . The international context in which Americans now operate , as well as the increasingly international sources of American immigration , call for knowledge of traditions ...
... past , I was converted some years ago to a world history approach . The international context in which Americans now operate , as well as the increasingly international sources of American immigration , call for knowledge of traditions ...
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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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