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Transforming History
William Irwin Thompson
其他書名
A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution
出版Lindisfarne Books, 2001
主題Education / CurriculaEducation / Teaching / Subjects / Social ScienceHistory / Study & TeachingPsychology / Developmental / ChildSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN15842000149781584200017
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZykmAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Education is now at the fore of many Americans' concerns. But education is about more than teaching children how to function in life. It is a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage. In this dynamic and far-reaching work, William Irwin Thompson, one of today's most innovative interdisciplinary thinkers, talks about how to transform a cultural legacy in the course of transmitting it. In the process of discussing this issue with the purpose of providing a home-schooling curriculum in the culture and history of humanity and the West, Thompson gives us a mind-rattling tour of our potential as human beings. He describes four "cultural ecologies" using a broad-based intellectual vista that takes in an expanse ranging from the Gilgamesh epic of 2000 B.C. to Disney, U2, and Ronald Reagan. His visionary approach takes education far beyond the bland, watered-down curricula so many students face today. He not only presents a far-reaching system of knowledge, but suggests how we may stimulate the best and healthiest patterns of development in children and teenagers.