Rhetoric, "Paideia" and the Old Idea of a Liberal Education

Autor/in	Miller, Alistair
Titel	Rhetoric, "Paideia" and the Old Idea of a Liberal Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 41 (2007) 2, S.183-206 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00558.x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; General Education; Rhetoric; Humanities; Intellectual Disciplines; Role of Education; Educational Philosophy; Self Concept; Self Actualization; Academic Education; Humanism; Thinking Skills; Curriculum + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Rhetorik; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Bildungsauftrag; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Selbstkonzept; Self actualisation; Selbstverwirklichung; Akademische Bildung; Humanismus; Denkfähigkeit; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan
Abstract	This paper argues that the modern curriculum of academic subject disciplines embodies a rationalist conception of pure, universal knowledge that does little to cultivate, humanise or form the self. A liberal education in the classical humanist tradition, by contrast, develops a personal culture or "paideia", an understanding of the self as a social, political and cultural being, and the practical wisdom needed to make judgements in practical, political and human affairs. The paper concludes by asking whether the old liberal curriculum, traditionally centred on the humanities and the disciplines of grammar and rhetoric, can be recovered in the modern age. (Author).
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