1st Edition

The Reforming of General Education The Columbia Experience in Its National Setting

By Daniel Bell Copyright 2011
348 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages
by Routledge

This comprehensive examination of general education by Daniel Bell scrutinizes the experiences of Columbia College, Harvard, and The College of the University of Chicago. These three basic models of general education in the country are set against a background of social change which includes a detailed analysis of structural changes in American society, the universities and the secondary schools... Read more
One: Intentions; Two: The Original Assumptions; Three: The Tableau of Social Change-Today and Tomorrow; Four: The Need for Reform: Some Philosophical Presuppositions; Five: The Contemporary Curriculum; Six: A Reprise, with Some Notes on the Future

Biography

S. A. Barnett