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dc.contributor.authorFrank, Jeff
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-15T12:31:55Z
dc.date.available2020-05-15T12:31:55Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.isbn9781643150079en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37746
dc.description.abstractThis book offers a lived defense of liberal education. How does a college professor, on a daily basis, help students feel the value of liberal education and get the most from that education? We answer this question, as professors, each day in the classroom. John William Miller, a philosophy professor at Williams College from 1924-1960 and someone noted for his exceptional teaching, developed one form that this lived defense can take. Though Miller published very little while he was alive, the archives at Williams College hold unpublished notes and essays of this master teacher. In this book, Jeff Frank offers an extended commentary on one of these unpublished essays where Miller develops his thinking on liberal education. Frank develops the idea that presence is central to liberal education and offers suggestions for how professors can become an educative presence for students.The goal of this book is an invitation to other professors who value liberal education to think with Miller about how to develop their own lived defense of liberal education, each day, in their own classrooms. The tone of the book is meant to be invitational, at times even conversational, and the book concludes with some direct suggestions for how professors can live their own defense of liberal education.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Educationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary educationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy and theory of educationen_US
dc.subject.otherStudenten_US
dc.subject.otherteachingen_US
dc.subject.otherliberal educationen_US
dc.titleBeing a Presence for Studentsen_US
dc.title.alternativeTeaching as a Lived Defense of Liberal Educationen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.3998/mpub.11567473en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedByef2222a7-42fd-4619-af89-7b20915b4b05en_US
oapen.pages144en_US


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