Education and Democracy: Re-imagining Liberal Learing in America - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874475899 ISBN 13: 9780874475890

Publisher: College Board, 1998

Synopsis

What should be the future direction of higher education in our democracy? Leading educators explore the contribution of pragmatic thought to remaking American liberal education in the twenty-first century.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Orrill is executive director, Office of Academic Affairs, the College Board. He has taught History and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Skidmore College; and Empire State College, State University of New York, where he was chair of the Graduate Council and chief administrator of the Graduate Program. At the College Board, he has served as general editor for "The Academic Preparation for College Series" and "The Thinking Series." He has also been responsible for publication of The Future of Education: Perspectives on National Standards in America and The Condition of American Liberal Education: Pragmatism and a Changing Tradition, produced under the auspices of the Board's National Center for Cross-Disciplinary Teaching and Learning.

Review:

"Dewey . . . thought education could prepare people for life in a democracy only if the educational expeirence was also democratic."--Louis Menand, the Graduate Center, the City University of New York

"Pragmatism, feminism, and multicultural diversity . . . all have at their animating core a conviction that divisions . . . must be critiqued and dismantled."--Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich, the Graduate School, Union Institute, Ohio

"If higher education doesn't start giving citizenship and democracy much greater priority, then who will?"--Alexander W. Astin, Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

About this edition

• Publisher: College Board
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0874475899
• ISBN 13: 9780874475890
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 351
• Editor: Orrill Robert