Cultural institutions, theatre and humanistic liberal education: reconsidering "art" in liberal arts education

The purported crisis and opportunity in liberal education may be approached via a reconsideration of the arts in liberal arts education. The advantage of such a view is that proponents of humanistic liberal education could speak in their own terms, while incorporating in a systematic way studies of...

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Main Author: Lee, J. Scott (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Institute for Interdisciplinary Research [2016]
In: Journal of interdisciplinary studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 28, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 151-170
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
ZF Education
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Summary:The purported crisis and opportunity in liberal education may be approached via a reconsideration of the arts in liberal arts education. The advantage of such a view is that proponents of humanistic liberal education could speak in their own terms, while incorporating in a systematic way studies of ancient and modern liberal arts, addressing public questions of the value and substance of a liberal education. A plausible issue for consideration is whether the "arts" can address a crisis, its purported causes and solutions, and the key role the humanities may have in building a renewed liberal arts education. At stake in the classroom is the realization of the possibilities, the intellectual freedom, which humans make for themselves in artistic making. This freedom differs from, but is complementary to, political freedom, the loadstone of standard liberal education defenses, because it is based in innovations and inventions of the arts and sciences, not in constitutions or politics of democracy.
ISSN:0890-0132
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of interdisciplinary studies