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Needed For The 1970'S: An Educational Policy For The Social Sciences*, Claude S. Phillips Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The list of efforts at intercultural education is almost limitless. The impact of these efforts has been so meager as to be startling. Conferences are still being convened to study the problem of how to incorporate intercultural studies into the educational system.

Conflict And Change In The Academic Community, Sidney Hook

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The direction of change which holds the greatest promise for deepening, enriching and developing the great humanistic and scientific legacies of university education is by liberalizing the curriculum and processes of teaching and learning in the light of the ideals of the liberal arts tradition. These legacies may stem from the contributions of socially privileged and elite groups of the past. Today our technology makes it possible for all men and women who are willing and able, to partake of them, to contribute to them, and to find meaning and enjoyment in them. The liberal arts tradition is strengthened by …

Only In Our Learning-The Purpose Of An Academic Community, Harris L. Wofford Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The search for truth is indeed the highest purpose of an academic community; it is truth as a question that can make man free. This is the vision without which people perish. Without it, we in our multiversities may win the world but lose our souls. Yet it is this basic idea of a community of scholars that is in clear and present danger.

Science & Technology In Education: What Kind Of A Marriage Is This?, Franklin G. Fisk

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Science as a human activity can help give us answers to adequate technologies in the classroom, but only if the nature of the scientific enterprise is properly recognized for what it is: A human approach to the world of sense experience with certain definite but necessary biases involving the creative use of hypothesis and theory in conjunction with valid generalizations and accurate data. All this is science, man is a part of it, and I firmly believe that science is one of man's most successful attempts to understand the world in which he lives.

The Course Curse, Dale Porter

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The course is the backbone of American higher education. Curricula built around sequences or selections of courses are almost universal in our colleges and universities. Attempts to move outside the course structure are still regarded as experimental or as exceptions to the rule, and their achievements are not generally understood unless translated into the language of course requirements. For example, when students demanded the opportunity for political involvement in the November campaigns, university officials obliged them-with a course. When college teachers think of educational reform they think of changing the content or the scheduling of courses, or at most the …

The University And Social Change, Rudolf J. Siebert

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Social change remains a most dramatic and most difficult challenge - a challenge which has to be faced. The academic community must face it, not only theoretically and practically inside of the university as an institution, but in its social and cultural environments as well.

Perspectives Vol. 1 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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The Idea Of General Education, Knox C. Hill

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Ideas of general education and how to sift through the confusion and important agreement that it matters.

A Letter From The President Of Agls, Malcolm Correll

Perspectives (1969-1979)

A letter from the President of AGLS

The University Of The Absurd: The Liberal Tradition In The Age Of Wescac, Harvey Overton

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Technical training in the university of the absurd will, of course, be superb. The new industrial state will provide- in fact, already is providing- the money and resources to train the physicists, chemists. engineers, sociologists, psychologists, and mathematicians needed to make the new technocracy function properly. (I don't mean to depreciate this contribution; it is of course, important and vital.) And as the university becomes increasingly proficient in its vocation al programs, it will increasingly reflect the corporate character of the society within which it functions, and the pervasive motivation in American education will be to achieve success in the …

Christening, Robert M. Limpus

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Perspectives is launched and honored to assist the Association for General and Liberal Studies in bringing forth this new journal.

Innovation Or Renovation?, Philip Denenfeld

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Undergraduate Curriculum Trends, by Paul L. Dressel & Frances H. DeLisle, Washington: American Council of Education, 1969. 83 pp.

On Some Aspect Of An Integrated General Education*, Martin Levit

Perspectives (1969-1979)

For many proponents, the educational reforms instituted by the general education movement were intended to represent or make possible social reforms. They were designed to develop capable and concerned social critics and reformers, people who had not merely a specialist's, niche-filler's, or functionary's, view of society but, also had embracive concerns and a comprehensive view of the social structure.

Perspectives Vol. 1 No. 2

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

The Model Educator And The Un-Model Student, R. L. Stallman

Perspectives (1969-1979)

College Curriculum and Student Protest, by Joseph J. Schwab, The University of Chicago Press, Pub. 1969. 303 pp.

General Education: An Essay In Definition*, Edward B. Blackman

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Thus by indirection we have arrived at a kind of definition of general or liberal education:²⁵ indispensable knowledge, regardless of one's specialty, of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities; the cumulative and the non-cumulative; the rational, the emotional, the spiritual, the mystical; fidelity and art; the real and the fanciful; the solemn and the sportive; self-discipline and the anarchic-the whole great range of human knowledge and feeling and character and action in the broadest horizons above and in the narrowest of crevices below, not mastered to be sure, but richly sampled.

An Environment For Environmental Studies, John Freund

Perspectives (1969-1979)

If we think of a liberal education as one which seeks to provide human beings with a means for realizing their humanity, we must recognize immediately that our educational institutions are completely out of it. It is not just that they aren't doing the job. They are in another ball park, playing a duller-and dirtier-game.

One of the rules of the game they are playing is that everyone must pretend that whatever is going on constitutes a liberal education. This doesn't really fool very many people, but it introduces so many irrelevancies into any discussion of the matter that coming …

The Teacher's Role In Liberal Education, James Redfield

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Liberal Education does not concern itself with the process by which people come to be able to do what is required of them; liberal education is the process by which people come to be excellent. Servile education makes a man useful to other people; liberal education makes him satisfactory to himself.

How The Younger Generation Is Being Corrupted, Henry Winthrop

Perspectives (1969-1979)

A brief synopsis of this cesspool of corruption; and so doing, I can serve in a small way to help the undergraduate to steer clear of the baneful intellectual and cultural influences to which he may be subjected during his four years at college.

Agls Executive Board Meeting Winter 1969, University Of Chicago, Douglas Dunham

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Beginning with this issue, October 1969, Perspectives will publish the minutes of the AGLS Executive Board Meetings as a service to association members. We are sure that the members of the Executive Board would welcome some feedback concerning their efforts, and Perspectives is more than willing to share your reactions with the total membership if you care to submit them in a letter-to-the-editor.

Members present: Correll, Limpus, Henshaw, Beinhauer, Johnson, LaFauci, Dunham, Carlin, Hodgkinson, Hackel Malcolm Correll, President presiding

Something Representing Nothing, Dick R. Williams

Perspectives (1969-1979)

An Introduction to Hominology, by Theodore C. Kahn, Ph.D., Sc.D., Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, Pub., 1969. 365 pp.