Bankrupt education : the decline of liberal education in Canada /
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | Emberley, Peter C. (Peter Christopher), 1956- |
|---|---|
| Imprint: | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1994. |
| Description: | viii, 189 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto studies in education |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1710611 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Crisis in Canadian Education. The Public Decline in Confidence. The Curriculum under Siege
- 3. The Assault on Education. New Directions: Destreaming, Transition Years, Learning Outcomes. The Link to the Universities
- 4. Liberal Education and the Modern World. Why Return to the Classics? Plato's Education of the Soul: Thumos, Eros, and the Dialectic of Speech. Aristotle: Civic Paideia as a Window on the World. Augustine: Will, Grace, and the Dynamics of Hope. Descartes and Vico: The Sundering of Mathematics and Poetry and the Transition to Modernity. Political Modernity and the Enlightenment
- 5. Liberal Education and the Fragmentation of Modernity. The Longing for Wholeness and the End of History. A Nietzschean Interlude
- 6. Liberal Education and the Canadian Polity. The Canadian Founding. The Founding Educators. 7. Conclusion.