Martha C. Nussbaum Not for profit

why democracy needs the humanities

Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have rightly been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. Recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry both in the United States and abroad. Anxiously focused on national economic growth, education has been treated as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable and empathetic...

Engels | 158 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ [etc.] | 2010

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