Core Texts, Community, and Culture - Working Together for Liberal Education (Paperback)

Throughout its existence, the Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) has asserted its commitment to the need for humans to come together to speak about the scientific, the political, and the artistic in order to live together in an enlightened fashion. In 2004, ACTC's Tenth Annual Conference convened to re-affirm and re-examine the value of serious reading and discussion focused through core texts. Participants articulated the various ways by which core text education in the liberal arts constructs and supports different expressions of community on college campuses around the world. Presenters asked whether it is better to contemplate the arts simply as expressions of cultures and traditions or to cultivate them, taking the risk that what is valued in artistic expressions might be changed by the inventions of teachers and the students they encourage. The essays collected here reflect the responses of the diverse group of ACTC's members, all of whom support the idea of liberal core text education with the self-conscious awareness of the challenges facing liberal education in the modern academy.

General

Imprint:	University Press of America
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Association for Core Texts and Courses
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	December 2009
Editors:	Ronald J. Weber • Scott J. Lee • Mary Buzan • Anne Marie Flanagan • Douglas Hadley
Dimensions:	233 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-7618-4936-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-7618-4936-X
Barcode:	9780761849360

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