Full Description
Augustine and Liberal Education sheds light on liberal education past and present, from an Augustinian point of view. Ranging from historical investigations of particular themes and issues in the thought of Saint Augustine, to reflections on the role of tradition and community and the challenges and opportunities facing universities in the next century, the contributors return to the sources of traditional reflection while exploring contemporary issues in education.
Contents
Chapter 1 Table of Contents
Chapter 2 List of Contributors
Chapter 3 Foreward
Part 4 I Education in the Confessions
Chapter 5 1 Bad Habits and Bad Company: Education and Evil in the Confessions
Chapter 6 2 Models of Teaching and Models of Learning in the Confessions
Chapter 7 3 Augustine'sConfessions as Pedagogy: Exercises in Transformation
Part 8 II Education in Augustine's Other Works
Chapter 9 4 Study as Love: Augustinian Vision and Catholic Education
Chapter 10 5 The Bishop as Teacher
Chapter 11 6 The "Arts Reputed Liberal": Augustine on the Perils of Liberal Education
Part 12 III Teaching and Authority in Augustine
Chapter 13 7 Augustine's Pedagogy of Intellectual Liberation: Turning Students from the "Truth of Authority" to the "Authority of Truth"
Chapter 14 8 The Limits of Augustine's Personal Authority: The Hermaneutics of Trust in De utilitate credendi
Chapter 15 9 Limit and Possibility: An Augustinian Counsel to Authority
Chapter 16 10 Augustine and English Protestants: Authority and Order, Coercion and Dissent in the Earthly City
Part 17 IV Liberal Education Since Augustine
Chapter 18 11 Reading without Moving Your Lips: The Role of the Solitary Reader in Liberal Education
Chapter 19 12 The Motives for Liberal Education
