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The rhetoric of a liberal arts education

PWR 1JPA - Autumn 2015 - Instructor: Peterson, J.
Last Updated: 4-Dec-2015

This is a guide to resources in support of PWR 1JPA: The Rhetoric of a Liberal Arts Education.  "Some key questions: How do current debates regarding education echo longstanding arguments? How important is it to study complex human questions versus training for a job? How is higher education shaped by this debate? How is this debate political?"

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The Routledge international handbook of higher education / edited by Malcolm Tight ... [et al.].
New York : Routledge, 2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2322.2 .R677 2009
"This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and cutting edge areas."
International handbook of higher education / James J.F. Forest, Philip G. Altbach (eds.).
Dordrecht : Springer, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference » LB2322.2 .I57 2006 PT.1
"provides an in-depth analysis of the scope of postsecondary education worldwide, combining a series of overarching comparative essays with analytic chapters focusing on key countries and regions."
The liberal arts tradition : a documentary history / [collected and edited by] Bruce A. Kimball.
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .L457 2010
Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education / Editor, James A. Banks, University of Washington.
Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference » LC1099 .E38 2012 V.1
"The major aim of this encyclopedia is to describe the most important concepts, theories, research, policies, case studies, and programs at the pre-school through the postsecondary levels and their implications for educational reform. Diversity is defined broadly in this encyclopedia and includes race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation (LGBT), religion, language, and exceptionality, which encompasses giftedness and disability." p. xlviii

Recent books

Liberal education, civic education, and the Canadian regime : past principles and present challenges / edited by David W. Livingstone.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1024 .C2 L515 2015
The best kind of college : an insiders' guide to America's small liberal arts colleges / edited by Susan McWilliams and John E. Seery.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2328.32 .U6 B47 2015
The humanities, higher education, and academic freedom : three necessary arguments / Michael Bérubé (Professor of Literature, Pennsylvania State University, USA) and Jennifer Ruth (Associate Professor in English, Portland State University, USA).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .B47 2015
In defense of a liberal education / Fareed Zakaria.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .Z34 2015
Liberal learning and the art of self-governance / edited by Emily Chamlee-Wright.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .L467 2015
Philosophy and modern liberal arts education : freedom is to learn / Nigel Tubbs (University of Winchester, UK).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .T84 2014
The future of liberal education / edited by Timothy W. Burns and Peter Augustine Lawler.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .F88 2015
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Wikipedia U : knowledge, authority, and liberal education in the digital age / Thomas Leitch.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .L44 2014
Claiming our callings : toward a new understanding of vocation in the liberal arts / edited by Kaethe Schwehn, L. DeAne Lagerquist.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .C455 2014
Beyond the university : why liberal education matters / Michael S. Roth.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .R75 2014
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The humanities "crisis" and the future of literary studies / Paul Jay.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » AZ182 .J38 2014
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Beyond reason and tolerance : the purpose and practice of higher education / Robert J. Thompson, Jr.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2322.2 .T46 2014
Fostering the liberal arts in the 21st-century community college / Keith Kroll, editor.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2328 .N4 NO.163
Corporate humanities in higher education : moving beyond the neoliberal academy / Jeffrey R. Di Leo.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1023 .D55 2013
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Remaking college : innovation and the liberal arts / edited by Rebecca Chopp, Susan Frost, and Daniel H. Weiss.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2328.32 .U6 R46 2014
Re-envisioning higher education : embodied pathways to wisdom and social transformations / edited by Jing Lin, Rebecca L. Oxford, Edward J. Brantmeier.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2322.2 .R425 2013
Blow up the humanities / Toby Miller.
Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1023 .M56 2012
Confronting challenges to the liberal arts curriculum : perspectives of developing and transitional countries / edited by Patti McGill Peterson.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .C672 2012
Education and its discontents : teaching, the humanities, and the importance of a liberal education in the age of mass information / Mark Moss.
Lanham : Lexington Books, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .M75 2012
The humanities and the dream of America / Geoffrey Galt Harpham.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » AZ503 .H37 2011
Not for profit : why democracy needs the humanities / Martha C. Nussbaum ; with a new afterword by the author.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .N88 2012
Valuing useless knowledge : an anthropological inquiry into the meaning of liberal education / Robert Bates Graber ; foreword by Troy Paino.
2nd ed. Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .G63 2012

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Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

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America, history and life with full text [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Industries,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Indexes and abstracts articles in history, both about the U.S. and Canada.
The Philosopher's index.
Cumulative ed. Bowling Green, Ohio, Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green University.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » Z7127 .P4 V.39 NO.4 2005
"The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews."