Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America Hardcover - 2006
by Levine, Donald N
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- Title Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America
- Author Levine, Donald N
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition (U
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2006-11-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000237839
- ISBN 9780226475530 / 0226475530
- Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.34 x 0.91 in (23.06 x 16.10 x 2.31 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Curriculum change - United States, Education, Higher - Curricula - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006011264
- Dewey Decimal Code 378.012
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From the rear cover
It is one thing to lament the financial pressures put on universities, quite another to face up to the poverty of resources for thinking about what universities should do when they purport to offer a liberal education. In Powers of the Mind, former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine enriches those resources by proposing fresh ways to think about liberal learning with ideas more suited to our times.
He does so by defining basic values of modernity and then considering curricular principles pertinent to them. The principles he favors are powers of the mind--disciplines understood as fields of study defined not by subject matter but by their embodiment of distinct intellectual capacities. To illustrate, Levine draws on his own lifetime of teaching and educational leadership, while providing an inspirational summary of exemplary educational thinkers at the University of Chicago who continue to inspire. Out of this vital tradition, Powers of the Mind constructs a paradigm for liberal arts today, inclusive of a wide range of perspectives and applicable to the unique settings of the modern world.
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Citations
- Library Journal, 09/15/2006, Page 70
- New York Review of Books, 04/29/2007, Page 47
