The Core and the Canon

, by Stevens, Lewell Robert; Seligmann, Gus L.; Long, Julian

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ISBN: 9780929398495 | 0929398491
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/1993

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Foreword
The Canon, Pro and Con
The Core Curriculum and the Canon: The Struggle and the Debate	p. 3
The Western Tradition: Fountainhead of Prejudice Or Perennial Wisdom?	p. 10
Finding a Curriculum for the Liberal Arts Faculty	p. 18
Rhetoric as Liberal Education	p. 21
The Liberal Arts: History and Development
The Muses as Pedagogues of the Liberal Arts	p. 31
Frederick Rudolph's American College and University: A History - Its Place in the Canon of Historical Scholarship on American Colleges and Universities	p. 37
Present at the Creation	p. 50
Elitism at the Core: Dare We Call It Rhetoric?	p. 54
Specialization and the College Curriculum	p. 60
Coherence in the Liberal Arts
Designing an Integrated, Four-Year Core	p. 69
Commerce Among the Archipelagos: Rhetoric of Inquiry as a Practice of Coherent Education	p. 78
An Integrated Liberal Arts Experience	p. 101
The Noah's Ark Phenomenon in Liberal Education: Pick-A-Pair (In Search of Connections in a Liberal Education)	p. 106
An Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Course	p. 117
Great Books: Elitist Or Essential
Elvis Triumphant, Bookworm Prooftext, Letterman, and the Fall of the Bastille	p. 123
Great Books and the Teaching of Ethics	p. 127
Classics, Culture, and Curricula	p. 148
What Makes a Great Book Great?	p. 154
Not the Canon, Not the Core, But Close Enough: The Masterpieces Approach	p. 159
The Case Against the Great Books - And Its Refutation	p. 167
Interfaces: Liberal Arts in a Pluralist Society
The Reviewers Reviewed: E. D. Hirsch and His Critics	p. 173
The Great Divorce: Liberal Arts and the Sciences in Education	p. 182
Coherence of Human Institutions and Curriculum Design	p. 190
The Enduring Lessons of the Commercial Revolution	p. 197
Literature and Science: A Misalliance	p. 205
Cicero in the Classic Learning Core	p. 214
Slouching Toward Bethlehem: The Book of Ruth in a Secular Society	p. 219
From Plato to Ann Plato: Toward a Synthesis of the Core in the Humanities	p. 231
Interfaces
Liberal Arts in a Pluralist Curriculum
The Logic and Pedagogy of Approaching the Canon	p. 239
The Calculus-Composition Collaboration	p. 245
Linking Freshman English to Western Civilization	p. 249
A Problem in Rhetoric: Teaching Writing With Western Culture	p. 256
The Seventh Art in Liberal Arts Education: The Integration of Film Study Into the Cirriculum	p. 265
Business Ethics Need Not Be Oxymoronic: Applying Liberal Arts to the Management Curriculum	p. 274
Common Ground: The Development of Practical Business Communication and Human Relations Skills in the Creative Writing Workshop	p. 279
Updating Management Theory to Match the New Technology: A Personality Theory Relating Business and the Liberal Arts	p. 288
Contents of the Core
Non-Discriminatory Discrimination: An Educational Challenge in the Postmodern World	p. 295
Core Requirements in the Professional Schools: A Research Model for Determining Core Curriculum	p. 302
The Humanities at the Core: A Modest Proposal for Getting Over the Sixties	p. 308
Pluralism and Coherence: The University of Dayton Model	p. 322
The Quadrivial Arts in the Liberal Arts Curriculum	p. 327
In Favor of a Fine Arts Practicum Requirement	p. 335
Teaching About Art in the Liberal Arts: What's at Stake	p. 342
Religion Studies in Secular Education: Yes and No?	p. 349
Reality: The Absolute Curriculum	p. 355
Liberal Education - Realistic Expectation Or Chimera? (The Case Study of the University of West Florida)	p. 368
Pleasures of the Intellect
Teaching the Humanities Means Humanizing the Teacher	p. 377
Wiilliam James and Rhetoric: An Argument for Belief as Belief in Argument	p. 385
The Historical Conditions of Visual Literacy	p. 394
On Reading the Aeneid at Age Fiftysomething	p. 401
Curricula and Social Change
Challenging the Meaning of 'Text' - Therefore, I(Y)am Defining Text and Looking at the Western Canon to See Its Appropriateness to a North American Context	p. 409
The Core at a Historically Black College: How Does It Differ? Should It Differ?	p. 417
The Curriculum and Social Change: Two Nineteenth-Century Views	p. 424
The Humanities in the Twenty-First Century	p. 432
Liberal Education and the Ruling Class	p. 442
Elitism in the Teaching of Literature	p. 449
Renaming the Species	p. 454
Pedagogy: What to Teach, How and When
Teaching the Core Before College: Introduction	p. 461
Teaching the Core Before College: The National Context	p. 463
Teaching the Core Before College: The First Chapter	p. 465
Teaching the Core Before College: The Elementary Years	p. 471
Teaching the Core Before College: The Humanities and the Secondary School	p. 473
Dialogue in the Classroom: Listening as a Teaching Strategy to Encourage Critical Thinking	p. 475
The Community College Classroom of the 1990s: A Societal Microcosm	p. 486
Pedagogy: Opportunities in the Classroom
Curricular Coherence in Action: The Opportunities Afforded by Normal Classes	p. 493
The Lyrical Age	p. 495
Fable, Fallibility, and Historical Reality	p. 503
The Practical Visionary: Mazzini and the Risorgimento	p. 511
Piers Plowman: Beyond the Text	p. 520
Literature, Protest, and Allegory in Their Social Context	p. 531
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