Full Description
This volume of the Association for Core Texts and Courses annual proceedings asks key questions about liberal arts education curricula. Contemplation, Crisis, Construct examines the benefits and dilemmas presented by the core text curriculum, highlighting important issues that shape institutional pedagogy, the selection of texts for students, and the quality of education offered to undergraduates pursuing a liberal education.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
J. Scott Lee, John Ruff, Cynthia Rutz, Jane Kelley Rodeheffer
Appropriating Core Texts in the Curriculum
Expanding Core Texts Across Borders:
A Paideia for a World Encounter
Phillip Sloan
The Humanities Core and the Troubling Persistence of the "Two Cultures"
James Woelfel
World Literature Survey Courses in the Age of Globalization
Alexander Dunlop
Enduring Hiccups and Party Crashing: Contemplation, Crisis and
Construct in Plato's Symposium and in Classroom Practice
James M. Vest
Contemplation
The Bridge of Game: Play as Meditation
Graham Forst
Freudian Confessions: Reading Augustine Through Freud
Vicki Tromanhauser
The Virtual Cities of Christine de Pizan and Plato
Jay Lutz
A Tale of Two "I's": Descartes's Metaphysical and
Autobiographical Subjects
Donald Marshall
"Refracted Light": Tolkien's "Mythopoeia" and the Authority
of Imaginative Literature
Ann McGlashan
"But Does It Really Work?": Considering the Co-Inquiry Approach
Kathleen Mullany
Construct
A Plea for Science Texts in the Core: Galileo and Darwin as Exemplars
Patrick Flynn
Bridging the Gap: Science Core Texts in a Writing Course
Jean-Marie Kauth
Echoes of Chambers: On Some Difficulties in Teaching The Origin
of Species as a Core Text
David Depew
Plato Appropriating Socrates's Death as Core Text into the Curriculum
Steven Robinson
The Synthetic Vision of Proust
Nicolas Margaritis
Crisis
Psychological Crisis and Character Development in Plato's Protagoras
Jonathan Lavery
Other Victims: Teaching Hersey's Hiroshima in the Wake of 9/11
Diana Curtis
Core Texts and Crisis - A Case Study: Stillman Drake's Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Kevin Staley 117
Achilles in Crisis: The Limits of Contextualism
Tim Spiekerman
