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Editorial Note, F. Theodore Marvin

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Editor Note for Vol. 2 Issue 2

The Challenge To Make Undergraduate Curricula Relevant To Students’ Needs, David S. Pacini, Francis D. Smith

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Panel 3 presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting at Colgate University, October 30th through November 1st, 1969.

The challenge for the liberal arts curriculum rests in the willingness of its leaders and teachers to again address the existential condition of which we are a part. We must be far more willing to probe the symbolic nature of men, and society, to unearth the dimensions of man for which students crave. We must address ourselves to the presupposition of a culture which is in many ways diffe rent from our own. Liberal arts education must take …

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 …

Anatomy Of An Anatomy Cult, Claude S. Phillips

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The Sexual Revolution of the last half-century has produced in advanced societies a new curiosity about the varieties of cultural forms dealing with erotic matters. It may be a little surprising, therefore, for our readers to find that there is still a major culture with unusual sexual attitudes and practices which is almost unknown. The Nacirema Tribe, which was discovered by Professor Horace Miner.

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.

A Proposal For Modifying General Studies Science*, Ollin J. Drennan

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The dominant thrust of General Studies activities lies in the direction of awakening and deepening the student's individual awareness to the welfare of man-individually and collectively-in the 1970's and beyond.

A Proposal For A Long-Range Project For The Association For General And Liberal Studies, Malcolm Correll

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Retiring President's Address presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting at Colgate University, October 30th through November 1st, 1969.

Perspectives Vol. 2 No. 2

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No abstract provided.

The Aim Of Liberal Education, Henry H. Crimmel

Perspectives (1969-1979)

I. The Crisis of Liberal Education and a Prerequisite for Its Resolution

II. The Failure of Current Definitions

III. The Aim Defined Free of Dogma

IV. The Aim Specified

V. The First Dimension: The Liberal Sciences

VI. The Second Dimension: The Liberal Arts

VII. The Third Dimension: Philosophy

VIII. The Irony in the Present Crisis

IX. The Pre-Emptive Claim of Liberal Education

Perspectives Vol. 1 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting which was held at Colgate University, October 30 through November 1, 1969.

The State Of The Association For General And Liberal Studies, Horatio M. Lafauci

Perspectives (1969-1979)

To serve the profession thus, the Association must broaden its membership base. First, however, it must broaden the base of involvement by increasing and extending opportunities for direct engagement of the membership at large; second, it must develop and provide services which will be of interest and value to present and potential members; and third, it must be prepared to accept a leadership role in extending and refining the processes of general-liberal education and undergraduate teaching.

A Most Promising Start, Henry Winthrop

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Environment for Man. The Next Fifty Years, Edited by William R. Ewald, Jr.; Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, Pub. 1967. 308 pages.

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.

Where To Begin In Changing Undergraduate Education, Charles Frankel

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The keynote address for the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies at Colgate University, October 30-November 1, 1969.

Science As A Liberal Study, James E. Trosko

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Panel 4 presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting at Colgate University, October 30th through November 1st, 1969.

Many educators recognize that, although elements ( facts, etc.) are needed in order to express or create, these things alone are not enough . Since connections of the mind are probably made from some sources of discipline, the phrase, in and of itself, expresses some truth. However, this facile phrase is too often used to mean the instructor who knows the substance of his discipline extremely well, can use that substance, and that alone, to educate his students. …

The Role Of The Undergraduate College In Social Change, Kenneth E. Boulding, John Weiss

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Panel 1 presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting at Colgate University, October 30th through November 1st, 1969.

All social change, without exception, involves a process in human learning. Social change, indeed, is an evolutionary process in the field of the "noosphere," especially if we include in this those human artifacts which are the result of imprinting human knowledge on the material and social world.

We ought to be clear at the start that the academic disciplines and the undergraduate college have not had any great impact on social change. Historically, social change in our culture …

Environmental Components Of Liberal Education, George G. Stern, Daniel Lago, Samuel D. Johnson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Panel 2 presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting at Colgate University, October 30th through November 1st, 1969.

The elements of such a curriculum for man can be derived from the evidence of early childhood. Manual dexterity, social interaction, esthetic response, and linguistic capacity constitute four sources of spontaneous gratification in early life. If the student were taken as the integrating center of a curriculum composed of successively more complex forms of these four elements, permitting his own inductive capacities to lead him on from one level to the next, a form of education would emerge …

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 …

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.

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.

Perspectives Vol. 1 No. 1

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No abstract provided.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Letter From The President Of Agls, Malcolm Correll

Perspectives (1969-1979)

A letter from the President of AGLS

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.

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.