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Contemplation, Crisis, Construct: Appropriating Core Texts into the Curriculum(Association for Core Texts and Courses)

Contemplation, Crisis, Construct: Appropriating Core Texts into the Curriculum(Association for Core Texts and Courses)


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This volume of the Association for Core Texts and Courses annual proceedings asks key questions about liberal arts education curricula. Contemplation, Crisis, Construct examines the benefits and dilemmas presented by the core text curriculum, highlighting important issues that shape institutional pedagogy, the selection of texts for students, and the quality of education offered to undergraduates pursuing a liberal education.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction J. Scott Lee, John Ruff, Cynthia Rutz, Jane Kelley Rodeheffer Appropriating Core Texts in the Curriculum Expanding Core Texts Across Borders: A Paideia for a World Encounter Phillip Sloan The Humanities Core and the Troubling Persistence of the “Two Cultures” James Woelfel World Literature Survey Courses in the Age of Globalization Alexander Dunlop Enduring Hiccups and Party Crashing: Contemplation, Crisis and Construct in Plato’s Symposium and in Classroom Practice James M. Vest Contemplation The Bridge of Game: Play as Meditation Graham Forst Freudian Confessions: Reading Augustine Through Freud Vicki Tromanhauser The Virtual Cities of Christine de Pizan and Plato Jay Lutz A Tale of Two “I’s”: Descartes’s Metaphysical and Autobiographical Subjects Donald Marshall “Refracted Light”: Tolkien’s “Mythopoeia” and the Authority of Imaginative Literature Ann McGlashan “But Does It Really Work?”: Considering the Co-Inquiry Approach Kathleen Mullany Construct A Plea for Science Texts in the Core: Galileo and Darwin as Exemplars Patrick Flynn Bridging the Gap: Science Core Texts in a Writing Course Jean-Marie Kauth Echoes of Chambers: On Some Difficulties in Teaching The Origin of Species as a Core Text David Depew Plato Appropriating Socrates’s Death as Core Text into the Curriculum Steven Robinson The Synthetic Vision of Proust Nicolas Margaritis Crisis Psychological Crisis and Character Development in Plato’s Protagoras Jonathan Lavery Other Victims: Teaching Hersey’s Hiroshima in the Wake of 9/11 Diana Curtis Core Texts and Crisis – A Case Study: Stillman Drake’s Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo Kevin Staley 117 Achilles in Crisis: The Limits of Contextualism Tim Spiekerman

About the Author :
J. Scott Lee is the executive director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses at www.coretexts.org. Cynthia Rutz is the director of the Teaching Resource Center at Valparaiso University. Jane Kelley Rodeheffer is the Fletcher Jones Great Books Chair, Seaver College, Pepperdine University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780761863137
  • Publisher: University Press of America
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America
  • Height: 227 mm
  • No of Pages: 138
  • Series Title: Association for Core Texts and Courses
  • Sub Title: Appropriating Core Texts into the Curriculum
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0761863133
  • Publisher Date: 19 Mar 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 213 gr


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