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  • Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America
  • Written by author Donald N. Levine
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, 9/15/2008
  • 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 Min
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Missing Resources in Higher Education

Part I. Crises of Liberal Learning in the Modern World

1. The Place of Liberal Learning
            Sites of Secondary Enculturation
            The Modernity Revolutions
            Liberal Education Encounters Modernity
2 The Movement for General Education
            Fallout from the Modernity Revolutions
            Quest for a New Common Learning

Part II. Enter Chicago

3. The Making of a Curricular Tradition
            Enter Chicago
            Forming and Nurturing a Tradition
            Themes of the Chicago Tradition
            The Chicago Tradition of Liberal Learning
4. Dewey and Hutchins at Chicago
            Dewey as Educator
            Hutchins as an Unwitting (?) Deweyan
            The Hutchins-Dewey Debate
5. Richard McKeon: Architecton of Human Powers
            Entering the Fray
            Changing the Humanities Course
            Reconfiguring the Liberal Curriculum
            The Return in the 1960s
            McKeon as Teacher
6. Joseph Schwab's Assault on Facile Teaching
            Genesis of an Educator
            Transforming the Natural Science Curriculum
            Transforming Classroom Pedagogy
            Transforming Pedagogy through Examinations
            Transforming Educational Systems
            Pluralistic Thoughtways and Communal Practice
            Schwab and the Chicago Tradition
7. What Is Educational about the Study of Civilizations?
            "Civilization" in Educational Discourse
            Civilizational Studies at Chicago
            So, What Is Educational about the Study of Civilizations?

Part III. Reinventing Liberal Education in Our Time

8. New Goals for the Liberal Curriculum   
            Contested Principles for the Liberal Curriculum
            Choosing a Path
9. Goals for the Liberal Curriculum I: Powers of Prehension 
            Audiovisual Powers
            Kinesthetic Powers
            Understanding Verbal Texts
            Understanding Worlds
10. Goals for the Liberal Curriculum II: Powers of Expression
            Forming a Self
            Inventing Statements, Problems, and Actions
            Integrating Knowledge
            Communicating
11. New Ways of Framing Pedagogy       
            Modalities of Teaching and Learning
            From "Teaching" to Teaching Powers
            A Repertoire of Teaching Forms
            Approaches to Testing
12. My Experiments in Teaching Powers
            Searching for Disciplines
            Basic Practice
            Disciplines as Ways of Getting into Conversations
            Disciplines as Ways of Connecting Conversations

Epilogue: The Fate of Liberal Learning
Appendix: Three Syllabi for Teaching Powers at Chicago
References
Index


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