The Place of Core Texts Selected Papers from the Ninth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses

by Malcolmson, Patrick; Wudel, Darcy; Lee, Scott J.

• ISBN13: 9780761840152
• ISBN10: 076184015X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-13
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

The focus of this book is on the theme of liberal education. Some contributors explore our common humanity, particularly the humanity of our teachers and students. Others explore the dialogue of ideas, the conversation that takes place across texts, cultures, and time. Perhaps most importantly, there is in these pages the primary conversation between the text and the student, which teachers attempt to aid and cultivate.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Liberal Education and the Place of Core Texts
Free to Hear Our Calling	p. 3
Is the Classroom a Paradise Lost or Regained?	p. 11
Does Liberal Democracy Stifle Liberal Education?: Nietzsche's Challenge to the Core	p. 19
Common Readers and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse	p. 27
Netscape-induced Hysteria and the Proper Place of the Book	p. 33
The Conversation-Authors and Students
An American Conversation: Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass	p. 43
Guiding Curiousity: Augustine's Confessions and Dante's Inferno	p. 49
Three Philosophical Heroes: King, Boethius, and Socrates	p. 55
A Place for Silence in the Core Text Curriculum: Benedict's Rule and the Great Books Dialogue	p. 61
Politics and the Place of Core Texts
"The king-becoming graces": Linking Core Courses in a First-year Learning Community	p. 69
Wooing Tyranny in Shakespeare's Richard III	p. 75
Ancient Historians and Modern History: Herodotus and Thucydides on Patriotism	p. 81
Imagine That: Some Latent Lessons in Thucydides' History	p. 89
Achilleus Now: Core Texts, the Good Life, and Democratic Society	p. 93
Finding a Place in the Core
Staging as Teaching: The Philoctetes in the Liberal Arts Curriculum	p. 101
The Necessity of Eloquence	p. 107
The Compleat Protestant Reformation in a Single Core Text: The Pedagogy of Historicity	p. 117
Using Thomas More's Utopia in the Western Civilization Survey	p. 123
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali-A Case Study in Diversification of the Core	p. 127
Contemporary Texts and the Core
The Hungry Gene as a Core Text in a Freshman Learning Community	p. 135
Educating Women: Classic Texts and Modern Films	p. 141
The Secret of The Secret History, Or Adding a New York Times Best Seller to Columbia's Core	p. 147
The Reader's Odyssey: Teaching Homer, Keats, Tennyson, and Cavafy	p. 153
"It doesn't have to be that way": The Place of the Core and Mike Rose's Lives on the Boundary	p. 161
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