Learning in the Plural : Essays on the Humanities and Public Life /

Can civic engagement rescue the humanities from a prolonged identity crisis? How can the practices and methods, the conventions and innovations of humanities teaching and scholarship yield knowledge that contributes to the public good? These are just two of the vexing questions David D. Cooper tackl...

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Main Author: Cooper, David D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2014]
Series:Transformations in higher education.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: On the Bus, by Julie Ellison; Introduction; Believing in Difference: The Ethics of Civic Literacy (1993); Moral Literacy (1994); Reading, Writing, and Reflection (1998); The Changing Seasons of Liberal Learning (1998); Academic Professionalism and the Betrayal of the Land-Grant Tradition (1999); Bus Rides and Forks in the Road: The Making of a Public Scholar (2002); Education for Democracy: A Conversation in Two Keys (2004); Is Civic Discourse Still Alive? (2007); Four Seasons of Deliberative Learning (2008); Can Civic Engagement Rescue the Humanities? (2013).