Beyond the University - Michael S. Roth

Beyond the University

Why Liberal Education Matters

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Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2015
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-21266-2 (ISBN)
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From the president of Wesleyan University, an eloquent defense of liberal education, seen against the backdrop of its contested history in America

Winner of the 2016 Frederic W. Ness Book Award sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism—often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student’s capacity for lifelong learning was useful for science and commerce while also being essential for democracy. In this provocative contribution to the disputes, university president Michael S. Roth focuses on important moments and seminal thinkers in America’s long-running argument over vocational vs. liberal education.
 
Conflicting streams of thought flow through American intellectual history: W. E. B. DuBois’s humanistic principles of pedagogy for newly emancipated slaves developed in opposition to Booker T. Washington’s educational utilitarianism, for example. Jane Addams’s emphasis on the cultivation of empathy and John Dewey’s calls for education as civic engagement were rejected as impractical by those who aimed to train students for particular economic tasks. Roth explores these arguments (and more), considers the state of higher education today, and concludes with a stirring plea for the kind of education that has, since the founding of the nation, cultivated individual freedom, promulgated civic virtue, and instilled hope for the future.

Michael S. Roth is president of Wesleyan University. A professor in history and the humanities, he teaches at Wesleyan and reaches many thousands more through his open online Coursera course, The Modern and the Post-Modern.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.7.2015
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10 0-300-21266-6 / 0300212666
ISBN-13 978-0-300-21266-2 / 9780300212662
Zustand Neuware
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