Science, Curriculum, and Liberal Education: Selected Essays

by Joseph J. Schwab

Book Overview

What is a liberal education and what part can science play in it? How should we think about the task of developing a curriculum? How should educational research conceive of its goals? Joseph Schwab's essays on these questions have influenced education internationally for more than twenty-five years.

Schwab participated in what Daniel Bell has described as the "most thoroughgoing experiment in general education in any college in the United States,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226741869
• ISBN13: 9780226741864
• Release Date: August 1978
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"