This comprehensive examination of general education by Daniel Bell
scrutinizes the experiences of Columbia College, Harvard, and The
College of the University of Chicago. These three basic models of
general education in the country are set against a background of
social change which includes a detailed analysis of structural
changes in American society, the universities and the secondary
schools and what Bell has called the emerging "postindustrial"
society. Bell attacks the distinction between general education and
specialism. He holds that one must embody and exemplify general
education through disciplines and extend the context of specialism
by setting it within the methodological grounds of knowledge. The
common link between the two is the emphasis on conceptual inquiry.
By emphasizing modes of conceptualization "how one knows, rather
than what one knows" Bell insists that colleges can have a new,
vivifying function between the pressures of the secondary and
graduate schools. In his proposals for a new curriculum, Bell sets
forth a scheme that imagines the first year as an acquisition of
necessary historical and humanistic knowledge, the next two years
as training in a discipline, and the last year, "the third-tier"
the most radical innovation as a new kind of general education
course which would "brake" specialization and apply disciplined
knowledge to broad intellectual and policy questions.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
September 2017 |
| First published: |
1996 |
| Authors: |
S. A. Barnett
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
346 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-53815-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
Philosophy of education
|
| LSN: |
1-138-53815-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781138538153 |
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