Synopses & Reviews
What should be the future direction of higher education in our democracy? Leading educators explore the contribution of pragmatic thought to remaking American liberal education in the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Robert Orrill is executive director, Office of Academic Affairs, the College Board. He has taught History and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Skidmore College; and Empire State College, State University of New York, where he was chair of the Graduate Council and chief administrator of the Graduate Program. At the College Board, he has served as general editor for "The Academic Preparation for College Series" and "The Thinking Series." He has also been responsible for publication of
The Future of Education: Perspectives on National Standards in America and
The Condition of American Liberal Education: Pragmatism and a Changing Tradition, produced under the auspices of the Board's National Center for Cross-Disciplinary Teaching and Learning.
Table of Contents
Editor's prologue / Robert Orrill -- Re-imagining liberal education / Louis Menand -- From discipline-based to problem-centered learning / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann -- Naming pragmatic liberal education / Bruce A. Kimball -- Cosmopolitan pragmatism : deliberative democracy and higher education / James T. Kloppenberg -- Pragmatism, idealism, and the aims of liberal education / Charles W. Anderson -- Innovation in the liberal arts and sciences / Douglas C. Bennett -- Professing the liberal arts / Lee S. Shulman -- The American tradition of aspirational democracy / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich -- Liberal education and democracy : the case for pragmatism / Alexander W. Astin -- Dewey versus Hutchins : the next round / Thomas Ehrlich --The stratification of cultures as the barrier to democratic pluralism / Troy Duster -- Biology, pragmatism, and liberal education / Ernst Mayr --Liberal education in Cyberia / Peter Lyman -- Placing liberal education in the service of democracy /Nicholas H. Farnham -- Education for a world lived in common with others / Lee Knefelkamp -- Afterword : anchoring the future in the past : 1931-1997 / Rita Bornstein.