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Title:

The liberal arts in a time of crisis / edited by Barbara Ann Scott ; with the assistance of Richard P. Sloan.

Publisher:

Praeger,

Copyright Date:

1991

Description:

xiii, 236 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Education, Higher--United States--Aims and objectives.
Education, Higher--United States--Curricula.
Education, Higher--United States.
Education, Humanistic--United States.
Higher education
United States

Other Authors:

Scott, Barbara Ann.
Sloan, Richard P.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-222) and index.

Contents:

Humanities in the education of minorities / Huel D. Perkins -- Reflections on the education of women / Elizabeth Briant Lee -- Foreign languages and humanistic learning / Rosette Liberman -- Revitalizing the modern humanities / Henri Peyre -- The unity and utility of learning / Gilbert J. Sloan -- Escape from folly : academic standards and the liberal arts / Ronald Colman -- Coda : confronting the conservative crusade for literacy : dissenting voices / Leon Botstein ... [et al.].
The depoliticization of the liberal arts / Emil Oestereicher -- Promoting the "new practicality" : curricular policies for the 1990s / Barbara Ann Scott -- Ideology and the politics of public higher education : responses to budget crises and curricular reorganization / Michael Engel -- The therapeutic classroom : a critique and an alternative / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- The dread of innovation in universities / Alfred McClung Lee -- Academic freedom, literacy, and the liberal arts / Stanley Aronowitz -- The decline of literacy and liberal learning / Barbara Ann Scott -- Reclaiming the tradition : educational reform in historical perspective / Leon Botstein -- Critical literacy and the legacy of Marxist discourse / Henry A. Giroux.

ISBN:

9780275932954 (alk. paper)
0275932958 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)20723822
(OCoLC)26301791

LCCN:

89048666

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PGAX715 -- Northwest Iowa Community College Library - Sheldon (Sheldon)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)