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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... social change must be grasped . Such goals are ambitious , but this book argues that they are attainable or at least open to measurable advancement — if the humanities are understood not primarily as guardians of unchang- ing truths but ...
... social change must be grasped . Such goals are ambitious , but this book argues that they are attainable or at least open to measurable advancement — if the humanities are understood not primarily as guardians of unchang- ing truths but ...
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... social history should be jettisoned or at least downgraded in favor of reexaminations of the great traditions of American and Western society , primarily meaning official political experience and " great ideas . " Bennett , for example ...
... social history should be jettisoned or at least downgraded in favor of reexaminations of the great traditions of American and Western society , primarily meaning official political experience and " great ideas . " Bennett , for example ...
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... social mobility , and that literary study consisted of memorizing character names and plot lines . They cer- tainly knew that history consisted almost exclusively of " one damned thing after another " —though they did not know that it ...
... social mobility , and that literary study consisted of memorizing character names and plot lines . They cer- tainly knew that history consisted almost exclusively of " one damned thing after another " —though they did not know that it ...
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... social relation- ships . Humanities , then , includes 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 ...
... social relation- ships . Humanities , then , includes 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 ...
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... social skills " such as checkbook writing or the other embellishments of " commercial economics . " The inadequacy of most of our foreign language edu- cation , which far too often compels numbingly basic training at the college level ...
... social skills " such as checkbook writing or the other embellishments of " commercial economics . " The inadequacy of most of our foreign language edu- cation , which far too often compels numbingly basic training at the college level ...
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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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