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The Paideia program : an educational syllabus
- Title
- The Paideia program : an educational syllabus / Mortimer J. Adler ; essays by the Paideia Group ; preface and introduction by Mortimer J. Adler.
- Author
- Adler, Mortimer J. (Mortimer Jerome), 1902-2001
- Publication
- New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1984.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LC1035.6 .A35 1984 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 238 pages; 21 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Third vol. of the author's trilogy; the 1st of which is The Paideia proprosal, and the 2nd of which is Paideia problems and possibilities.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 185-238.
- Contents
- The conduct of seminars / Mortimer Adler -- Coaching / Theodore Sizer -- Didactic instruction / Mortimer Adler -- English language and literature / Geraldine Van Doren -- Mathematics / Charles Van Doren -- Science / Donald Cowan -- History / Jacques Barzun -- Social studies / Adele Simmons -- A foreign language / Geraldine Van Doren -- The fine arts / John Van Doren -- The manual arts / James O'Toole -- The world of work / James O'Toole -- Physical education / James O'Toole -- How a Paideia school should be structures / Dennis Gray -- How to recognize a Paideia school / Mortimer Adler -- A note on grading and the paradox of present practice / Mortimer Adler.
- ISBN
- 0020130406
- 9780020130406
- 0025003003
- 9780025003002
- LCCN
- 84014338
- OCLC
- ocm10912468
- 10912468
- SCSB-8918165
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library