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Remapping Asian American History exemplifies the emerging trends in
the writing of Asian American history, and fills substantive gaps
in our knowledge about particular Asian ethnic groups. Edited by
noted scholar Sucheng Chan, the essays in this volume uses new
frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of
international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of
contemporary U.S. race relations. These concerns, often ignored in
earlier studies that focused on social and economic aspects of
Asian American communities, challenge some long-held assumptions
about Asian American communities and point to new directions in
Asian American historiography. Historians, students, and teachers
of anthropology, Asian and Asian American Studies, race and ethnic
studies, U.S. immigration history, and American Studies will find
this collection invaluable.
A classic in the history of American higher education The
Experimental College is the record of a radical experiment in
university education. Established at the University of Wisconsin in
Madison in 1927 by innovative educational theorist Alexander
Meiklejohn, the ""Experimental College"" itself was to be a small,
residence-based program within the larger university that provided
a core curriculum of liberal education for the first two years of
college. Aimed at finding a method of teaching whereby students
would gain ""intelligence in the conduct of their own lives,"" the
Experimental College gave students unprecedented freedom.
Discarding major requirements, exams, lectures, and mandatory
attendance, the program reshaped the student-professor
relationship, abolished conventional subject divisions, and
attempted to broadly connect the democratic ideals and thinking of
classical Athens with the dilemmas of daily life in modern
industrial America. Meiklejohn's program closed its doors after
only five years, but this book, his final report on the experiment,
examines both its failures and its triumphs. This edition brings
back into print Meiklejohn's original, unabridged text.
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