Liberal Education: Critical Essays on Professions, Pedagogy, and Structure

by Frederick S. Weaver

Advocating modest educational reform, this book seeks to define more clearly the goals of higher education through a critical appraisal of its nature and promise. The four chapters in Part 1 provide an overview of the intellectual and curricular issues of liberal education, beginning with a view of academic disciplines as professional organizations and an account of the political and economic challenges that structure faced during the 1970s and 1980s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807730637
• ISBN13: 9780807730638
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 197 Pages