Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America

by Donald N. Levine

Hardcover, 2006

Publication

University Of Chicago Press (2006), 256 pages

Description

In Powers of the Mind, former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine considers the liberal education that our universities purport to offer, finds it lacking, and in response proposes fresh and invigorating ways to think about liberal learning that are more suited to our times. Levine begins by defining basic values of modernity and then considering pertinent curricular principles. The principles he favors are powers of the mind ?disciplines understood as fields of study defined less by their subject matter than by the distinct intellectual capacities they embody. To illustrate, Levine dra

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

256 p.; 6 inches

ISBN

0226475530 / 9780226475530
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