The Philosophy of the Curriculum

by Hook, Sidney; Kurtz, Paul; Todorovich, Miro; University Centers for Rational Alternatives

• ISBN13: 9780879750510
• ISBN10: 0879750510
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1975-06-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
General Education and the University Crisis	p. 2
General Education: the Minimum Indispensables	p. 27
On Reviving Liberal Education- in the Seventies	p. 37
The Humanistic Disciplines	p. 48
Humanism and the Humanities	p. 50
Justifying the Humanities	p. 75
Observations on Humanism and History	p. 81
The Language and Methods of Humanism	p. 89
Science, Science Teaching, and Rationality	p. 100
In Defense of Scientific Knowledge	p. 119
The Uses and Limitations of Science Teaching	p. 127
Multilevel Teaching of the Natural Sciences	p. 137
Problems and Dilemmas of the Social Sciences	p. 142
The Social Sciences in Liberal Education	p. 144
The Economist Among the Social Scientists	p. 159
Social Science and General Education	p. 165
A Role for Social Science?	p. 169
Experiential Education and Revitalization of the Liberal Arts	p. 176
Education for the Future: the Liberating Arts	p. 197
The Desirability of Pulling in One's Horns	p. 205
On Sharpening the Horns	p. 211
The Humanities as Scholarship and a Branch of Knowledge	p. 217
Questions of Viability in Nontraditional Education	p. 221
On Interdisciplinary Education	p. 227
The Logic of the Social Sciences: to Be, to Do, or to Describe?	p. 235
A Proposal for a New Division of the Curriculum	p. 247
On the Condition of Political Science	p. 253
New Beginnings in General Education	p. 257
Thoughts on a Social-Science Curriculum	p. 261
The Specter at the Feast	p. 275
Contributors	p. 276
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