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Educating For Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric In The General Education Curriculum, David M. Stock
Educating For Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric In The General Education Curriculum, David M. Stock
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This study is, in part, a response to arguments that claim higher education fails to prepare students with fundamental communication skills necessary for everyday life and indicative of "educated" persons. Though the validity of such arguments is contestable, they nonetheless reflect fundamental inadequacies in current educational theories and practices that have evolved over centuries of curricular, cultural, and socioeconomic change. Current theories and practices in higher education, specifically general education, reflect a misunderstanding of both the purpose of education in a democracy and the role of the liberal arts, specifically rhetoric, in accomplishing that purpose. The consequences of rhetorically-impoverished general …
Sabbatical Report, Umeeta Sadarangani