Teaching Humanities in New Ways--And Teaching New Humanities. Mark Wagner.
by Wagner, Mark; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 16Institutions. Publisher: Humanist, 2005ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Curriculum change | Education -- Aims and objectives | Education -- Higher | Education -- Humanistic | Equality | Humanities -- Study and teaching | Learning | Music and society | Rock music | WealthDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Our human needs for the original precepts of education remain. We need to convey the values of tolerance, virtue, wisdom, and a love of truth. My hope in literature's ability to convey these things isn't diminished. But in changing times, with new technologies and changing class structures, we need to preserve the ideals of education in progressive and innovative ways. Bringing the new rebels of rock and roll into the classroom, sorting through the hyper-promoted and the shock and schlock, we can find and appreciate the authentic utterances of the people. We can also grip the imaginations of our students." (HUMANIST) The author, a college professor who teaches a class on the History of Rock and Roll, explains that "in an era when global capitalism reverts to inequality, war, and crisis, rock and roll is one of many ways to reinvigorate the pressing teachings of the humanities."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Teaching Humanities in New Ways--And Teaching New Humanities, May/June 2005; pp. 11+.
"Our human needs for the original precepts of education remain. We need to convey the values of tolerance, virtue, wisdom, and a love of truth. My hope in literature's ability to convey these things isn't diminished. But in changing times, with new technologies and changing class structures, we need to preserve the ideals of education in progressive and innovative ways. Bringing the new rebels of rock and roll into the classroom, sorting through the hyper-promoted and the shock and schlock, we can find and appreciate the authentic utterances of the people. We can also grip the imaginations of our students." (HUMANIST) The author, a college professor who teaches a class on the History of Rock and Roll, explains that "in an era when global capitalism reverts to inequality, war, and crisis, rock and roll is one of many ways to reinvigorate the pressing teachings of the humanities."
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