search for books and compare prices
humanities study teaching united states matches 12 work(s)
displaying 1 to 12 |
at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Product Description: It is the purpose of this book to examine the ever-changing meaning of the term âliberal artsâ and to trace its development from antiquity to the present. In doing so, the text will compare and contrast the values of such an education with the other important objective of schools and colleges, which is to prepare students with appropriate occupational training...read more
Hardcover:
9781475817782 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 18, 2015, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: It is the purpose of this book to examine the ever-changing meaning of the term âliberal artsâ and to trace its development from antiquity to the present.
Paperback:
9781475817799 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 11, 2015, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The book will highlight the arguments of both points of view.
Hardcover:
9780393081275 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 18, 2013, cover price $27.95
Product Description: Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization, this collection of seventeen essays makes clear that cultivating regionalism lies at the center of the humanist endeavor...read more
Paperback:
9780803276345 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, January 1, 2009, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization, this collection of seventeen essays makes clear that cultivating regionalism lies at the center of the humanist endeavor.
Hardcover:
9781412914482 | Corwin Pr, April 13, 2005, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: Through lesson planning ideas, key words, resources, and visual thinking questions, this innovative resource demonstrates how visual arts can be used to teach across all subject areas.
Paperback:
9781412914499 | Corwin Pr, April 13, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Through lesson planning ideas, key words, resources, and visual thinking questions, this innovative resource demonstrates how visual arts can be used to teach across all subject areas.
Product Description: For those who believe that the humanities in America are in trouble, suffering from over-specialization and never-ending intramural conflicts, this collection of addresses and essays provides much needed hope.Since the early 1970s, state humanities councils, working under a Congressional mandate, have developed important models of how the study of history, literature, and culture can be infused into the public life of the nation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9781574410525 | Univ of North Texas Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: For those who believe that the humanities in America are in trouble, suffering from over-specialization and never-ending intramural conflicts, this collection of addresses and essays provides much needed hope.
"Think of this as âThe Thinking Manâs Bloomâ or âThe Thinking Womanâs Closing of the American Mind.â It takes up debates about education and reasons about them, where Bloom often only blasted away.... This is one of the more helpful recent statements of the case for the classics, accompanied by rather venturesome curricular suggestions." âChristian Century"His exciting readable book calls for a return to a study of the classicsâand of the Renaissance poets and scholars, like Petrarch, who rediscovered the classics." âMichael Dirda, Washington Post Book World"... a splendid statement bringing together in a careful and coherent way the prospects for a solid humanities curriculum." âErnest L. BoyerTen years ago when this book was first published it was called Educationâs Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud. It is being reissued now in a second edition with a different title for a new generation of readers who cannot have forgotten what they never knew. What are the humanities? Can we agree on a core curriculum of humanistic studies? Robert Proctor answers these questions in a provocative, readable book. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780253334213 | 2nd edition (Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1998), cover price $35.00
Paperback:
9780253212191 | 2 edition (Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1998), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: "Think of this as âThe Thinking Manâs Bloomâ or âThe Thinking Womanâs Closing of the American Mind.
Product Description: The complexities and contradictions of postmodern life are nowhere better reflected than in today's schools. The arts and humanities are on the national agenda, but what role will they play? The answer to this question still is under construction...read more
Paperback:
9780873674980 | Phi Delta Kappa Intl Inc, December 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The complexities and contradictions of postmodern life are nowhere better reflected than in today's schools.
Product Description: In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not of what we teach but of why and how we teach it. A humanities program, says Stearns, should teach students not just memorized facts but analytical skills that are vital for a critically informed citizenry...read more
Hardcover:
9780807820902 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not of what we teach but of why and how we teach it.
Paperback:
9780807844854 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $46.50 | About this edition: In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not of what we teach but of why and how we teach it.
Paperback:
9780939962105 | Occasional Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Book by Randolph Jennings, Judith Renyi
Paperback:
9780871171924 | Community College Pr/Amer Assoc, June 1, 1989, cover price $5.00
Hardcover:
9780253349255 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Traces the history of the humanities as an area of study, discusses the reasons for their current decline, and suggests a way to revitalize the field
Hardcover:
9780841910171 | Holmes & Meier Pub, May 1, 1985, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Book by
Paperback:
9780841910188 | Holmes & Meier Pub, May 1, 1985, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Book by
displaying 1 to 12 |
at end