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Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance (Paperback)
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Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Concerns over affordability and accountability have tended to
direct focus away from the central aims of liberal learning, such
as preparing minds for free inquiry and inculcating the habits of
mind, practical skills, and values necessary for effective
participation in civil society. The contributors to this volume
seek to understand better what it is that can be done on a
day-to-day basis within institutions of liberal learning that shape
the habits and practices of civil society. The central argument of
this volume is that institutions of liberal learning are critical
to a developing and flourishing civil society. It is within these
"civil society incubators" that the habits of open discourse are
practiced and honed; that a collaborative (often contentious)
commitment to truth seeking serves as the rules that govern our
work together; that the rules of personal and widespread social
cooperation are established, practiced, and refined. Many have made
this argument as it relates to community based learning, and we
explore that theme here as well. But acquiring and practicing the
habits of civil society recur within and throughout the college
context-in the classrooms, in college governance structures, in
professional associations, in collaborative research, in the
residence halls, and on the playing field. To put it another way,
when they are at their best, institutions of liberal learning are
contexts in which students learn how to live in a free society and
learn the art of self-governance.
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