Acres of Rhinestones: Temple Betrays Its Heritage

Autor/in	Zelnick, Stephen
Titel	Acres of Rhinestones: Temple Betrays Its Heritage
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 22 (2009) 3, S.272-283 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-009-9118-6
Schlagwörter	General Education; Required Courses; Educational Change; Traditionalism; Politics of Education; Humanities; Classics (Literature); Role of Education; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Pflichtkurs; Bildungsreform; Traditionalismus; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Bildungsauftrag
Abstract	Liberal education has been disappearing, and what remains is diminished and compromised. At Temple University, the largest department in the college of liberal arts is criminal justice. The second largest is counseling psychology, and the humanities disciplines have become left-veering sociology. While islands of traditional learning survive, the one reliable outpost at Temple had been the "Intellectual Heritage Program," established in 1986, which was comprised of required courses in the Great Books. In fall 2008, Temple replaced this celebrated program with "Mosaic," a dramatically different approach to the classics. This article traces the continuing erosion of liberal education at one university and the justifications for these corrosive innovations. (Contains 2 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10