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Ladataan... Talouskasvua tärkeämpää : miksi demokratia tarvitsee humanistista sivistystä (2010)Tekijä: Martha Nussbaum
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Nussbaum's book will continue to be important in an age where politicians and opinionated citizens view our nation's high schools as trade schools and our colleges as trade school 2.0. Her arguments address a society in which businesses are not seen as responsible for developing their own talent from a pool of educated workers with an ability to learn, or to mentor that talent. She also addresses a college system that has pitted economic development against a well-rounded education, one in which colleges on the defensive feel the need to justify their contribution in terms of units of production. The development has been one that can be described as laziness in that describing value in terms of quantity is much easier that standards that reflect quality. Nussbaum makes a strong argument that we stand to lose a lot by continuing down this path - such as informed citizens who have the imagination to ask questions that improve the lives of citizens, and as a result the conditions of workers and what those workers make. If there's any criticism, perhaps more could be written that does not assume that an educated population is a good in itself -- since so many politicians and industry lobbyists have tried to detract from that idea. She makes valid points on the partisans who might benefit from having a robotic workforce that doesn't ask questions. There are many in the middle though, as the result of busy lives, who would benefit from seeing what they have to lose. ( ) Chapter 3 was first-rate! And she has some great points. And I may be a bit biased. However, I was confused on her constant references to India and Tagore. It seemed, until the afterword that the U. S. was in a quandary and Tagore had the answer but then I realized that Tagore's school wasn't doing too well either so using it as the ideal didn't seem to work for me. It's pathetic that we live in a society that so little values the humanities that scholars like Nussbaum feel compelled to defend them. Nussbaum's defense of the value of the humanities is informed, intelligent, thoughtful, and obvious. She could have summed up her arguments in a lengthy essay rather than a book but the points she repeats are worth repeating.
[An] impassioned (if somewhat preachy) argument in favor of study of the humanities. She suggests, contra the critics, that “the liberal arts portion of college and university education in the United States now supports democratic citizenship better than it did fifty years ago.” Her concern is with the diminishing place given to the liberal arts in many institutions: their marginalization by technocratic and business-oriented demands
"In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable, productive, and empathetic individuals. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world. In response to this dire situation, Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world. In a new preface, Nussbaum explores the current state of humanistic education globally and shows why the crisis of the humanities has far from abated. Translated into over twenty languages, Not for Profit draws on the stories of troubling--and hopeful--global educational developments. Nussbaum offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for anyone who cares about the deepest purposes of education." -- Publisher's description Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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