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A new generation of teachers envisions a liberal arts education that is good for everyone.
study the liberal arts? It's no secret that the liberal arts have
fallen out of favor and are struggling to prove their relevance. The cost of
college pushes students to majors and degrees with more obvious career
outcomes.
A new cohort of
educators isn't taking this lying down. They realize they need to
reimagine and rearticulate what a liberal arts education is for, and what it
might look like in today's world. In this book, they make an honest reckoning
with the history and current state of the liberal arts.
You may have heard - or asked - some of these questions
yourself:
educators mount a vigorous defense of the humanist tradition, but also
chart a path forward, building on their tradition's strengths and addressing
its failures. In each chapter, dispatches from innovators describe concrete
ways this is being put into practice, showing that the liberal arts are not only
viable today, but vital to our future.*** Contributors
include Emily Auerbach, Nathan Beacom, Jeffrey Bilbro, Joseph Clair, Margarita
Mooney Clayton, Lydia Dugdale, Brad East, Don Eben, Becky L. Eggimann, Rachel
Griffis, David Henreckson, Zena Hitz, David Hsu, L. Gregory Jones, Brandon
McCoy, Peter Mommsen, Angel Adams Parham, Steve Prince, John Mark Reynolds,
Erin Shaw, Anne Snyder, Sean Sword, Noah Toly, Johnathan Tran, and Jessica
Hooten Wilson
study the liberal arts? It's no secret that the liberal arts have
fallen out of favor and are struggling to prove their relevance. The cost of
college pushes students to majors and degrees with more obvious career
outcomes.
A new cohort of
educators isn't taking this lying down. They realize they need to
reimagine and rearticulate what a liberal arts education is for, and what it
might look like in today's world. In this book, they make an honest reckoning
with the history and current state of the liberal arts.
You may have heard - or asked - some of these questions
yourself:
Aren't
the liberal arts a waste of time? How will reading old books and
discussing abstract ideas help us feed the hungry, liberate the oppressed
and reverse climate change? Actually, we first need to understand
what we mean by truth, the good life, and justice.
Aren't
the liberal arts racist? The "great books" are mostly by
privileged dead white males. Despite
these objections, for centuries
the liberal arts have been a resource for those working for a better
world. Here's how we can benefit from ancient voices while expanding the
conversation.
Aren't
the liberal arts liberal? Aren't humanities professors mostly
progressive ideologues who indoctrinate students? In fact, the liberal arts are an age-old tradition of moral formation,
teaching people to think for themselves and learn from other perspectives.
Aren't
the liberal arts elitist? Hasn't humanities education too often
excluded poor people and minorities? While that has sometime been
the case, these educators map out well-proven ways to include people of
all social and educational backgrounds.
Aren't
the liberal arts a bad career investment? I really just want to
get a well-paying job and not end up as an overeducated barista. The
numbers - and the people hiring - tell a different story.
educators mount a vigorous defense of the humanist tradition, but also
chart a path forward, building on their tradition's strengths and addressing
its failures. In each chapter, dispatches from innovators describe concrete
ways this is being put into practice, showing that the liberal arts are not only
viable today, but vital to our future.*** Contributors
include Emily Auerbach, Nathan Beacom, Jeffrey Bilbro, Joseph Clair, Margarita
Mooney Clayton, Lydia Dugdale, Brad East, Don Eben, Becky L. Eggimann, Rachel
Griffis, David Henreckson, Zena Hitz, David Hsu, L. Gregory Jones, Brandon
McCoy, Peter Mommsen, Angel Adams Parham, Steve Prince, John Mark Reynolds,
Erin Shaw, Anne Snyder, Sean Sword, Noah Toly, Johnathan Tran, and Jessica
Hooten Wilson
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Bilbro, Jeffrey
- ISBN: 9781636080673
- Condition: Used
- Number Of Pages: 224
- Publication Year: 2023
Language:
English