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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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