The Politics of Liberal Education 9780822381747

Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the liter

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The Politics of Liberal Education
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In John Boyer, ed., The Aims of Education (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago, 1997), pp. 81-106.

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What should the aims of education be in a liberal society? Who should exercise control over education? How can children

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The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal educ

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The first comprehensive overview of the resurgence of interest in realist political theory, and a defence of liberal pol

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While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have

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Learning to Flourish offers a lucid, penetrating, philosophical exploration of liberal learning: a still-evolving tradit

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Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Fr

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Hardly a week passes without some luminary decrying the exorbitant cost of higher education and the sorry state of the l

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This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking

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'Incandescent, emotional, tragic and challenging' - Marcia Langton In this groundbreaking book, Peter Sutton

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