focuses on the theory of liberal education developed by Paul Axelrod and his colleagues from York University's Faculty of Education in Toronto, such prominent scholars as Patrick Solomon and Sharon Todd, among others. This book explores hermeneutically, in the spirit of H.R. Jauss'School of Constance, the nature of liberal education itself. Is it possible to reconcile liberalism and indoctrination in contemporary education? Or individualism and multiculturalism? How do we understand the values of liberal education in the context of globalization and a postindustrial society? And what does Axelrodian liberal education imply about the reinterpretation of the world in the digital era?Daniel Deleanu, M.A., Ph.D. is Professor of Education Studies in the field of English, Linguistics, Literary Theory, and Ethics at Kennedy College in Toronto, Ontario. Dr.Deleanu is the creator of logosophism, an original philosophical system, and the author of a dozen books.
Through Adler , he met subsequently Richard McKeon , Columbia's first professor of renaissance and medieval philosophy , and Stringfellow Barr , a philosopher and the thendirector of the School of Philosophy of the People's Institute of ...
11Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982). 12Three resources are indispensible for considering Christian hermeneutics: Grant R. 74 THE LIBERAL ARTS.
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The Condition of American Liberal Education: Pragmatism and a Changing Tradition
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Hermeneutics,. Semiotics,. Metaphysics. Throughout the entire Middle Ages, the logic of signs as Doctrina Signorum (the ... This text is renowned for being: (1) the first medieval liberal education treatise; (2) the first treatise of ...
Bruffee , K.A. ( 1982 ) Liberal education and the social justification of belief . Liberal Education , 68 ( 2 ) : 95-114 . Bruffee , K. ( 1985 ) Liberal education , scholarly community , and the authority of knowledge .
Current discussions of the mission and value of liberal arts education often oppose skills and content. ... Here, I will apply Ricoeur's interpretation theory to the debate over skills in liberal arts pedagogy and advocacy, ...
This book is renowned for being (1) the first medieval liberal education treatise, (2) the first treatise of semiotics ... The hermeneutics that the Christian Church Fathers employed to interpret the Bible is also the hermeneutics which ...
44 See John Arthos, “A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Civic Humanism and Liberal Education,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, 40, no. 2 (2007): 189-200. 45 See ibid. 46 Nicholas Davey, “Getting the Measure: Language and Reason in Philosophical ...