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From the Cast-Iron Shore - In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,083
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From the Cast-Iron Shore - In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning (Hardcover): Francis Oakley

From the Cast-Iron Shore - In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning (Hardcover)

Francis Oakley

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From the Cast-Iron Shore is part personal memoir and part participant-observer's educational history. As president emeritus at Williams College in Massachusetts, Francis Oakley details its progression from a fraternity-dominated institution in the 1950s to the leading liberal arts college it is today, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. Oakley's own life frames this transformation. He talks of growing up in England, Ireland, and Canada, and his time as a soldier in the British Army, followed by his years as a student at Yale University. As an adult, Oakley's provocative writings on church authority stimulated controversy among Catholic scholars in the years after Vatican II. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Medieval Academy of America, and an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has written extensively on medieval intellectual and religious life and on American higher education. Oakley combines this account of his life with reflections on social class, the relationship between teaching and research, the shape of American higher education, and the challenge of educational leadership in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. The book is an account of the life of a scholar who has made a deep impact on his historical field, his institution, his nation, and his church, and will be of significant appeal to administrators of liberal arts colleges and universities, historians, medievalists, classicists, and British and American academics.

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Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2018
Authors: Francis Oakley
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 978-0-268-10401-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Children's & Educational > Social studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
Books > History > World history > General
Books > Biography > General
Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
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LSN: 0-268-10401-8
Barcode: 9780268104016

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