The Liberal Arts in a Time of Crisis

Introduction Curricular Policy, Pedagogy and Politics--A Critical Reappraisal The Depoliticization of the Liberal Arts by Emil Oestereicher Promoting the New Practicality--Curricular Policies for the 1990s by Barbara Ann Scott Ideology and the Politics of Public Higher Education: Responses to Budget Crises and Curricular Reorganization by Michael Engel The Therapeutic Classroom--A Critique and an Alternative by Jean Bethke Elshtain The Dread of Innovation in Universities by Alfred McClung Lee Academic Freedom, Literacy, and the Liberal Arts by Stanley Aronowitz The Decline of Literacy and Liberal Learning by Barbara Ann Scott Toward Recovery of Higher Learning Reclaiming the Tradition--Educational Reform in Historical Perspective by Leon Botstein Critical Literacy and the Legacy of Marxist Discourse by Henry A. Giroux Humanities in the Education of Minorities by Huel D. Perkins Reflections on the Education of Women by Elizabeth Briant Lee Foreign Languages and Humanistic Learning by Rosette Liberman Revitalizing the Modern Humanities by Henri Peyre The Unity and Utility of Learning by Gilbert J. Sloan Escape from Folly--Academic Standards and the Liberal Arts by Ronald Colman Coda: Confronting the Conservative Crusade for Literacy--Dissenting Voices (A Dialogue) by Leon Botstein, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Engel, Alfred McClung Lee, Henry A. Giroux, and Stanley Aronowitz Selected Bibliography Index

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