书目名称 | F. R. Leavis | 副标题 | The Creative Univers | 编辑 | Steven Cranfield | 视频video | | 概述 | This is the first book that provides an in-depth examination of Leavis’s thought in relation to contemporary mass higher education.The book explains Leavis’s ideas succinctly in clear, non-technical t | 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Education | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This is a critical introduction to the educational thought of F. R. Leavis (1895–1978), the greatest English literary critic of the twentieth century, providing the first in-depth examination of Leavis’s ideas in relation to contemporary mass higher education. During the course of a long, prolific and controversial academic career, which saw him take issue with figures such as Wittgenstein, T. S. Eliot and C. P. Snow, Leavis became one of the most articulate advocates for the idea of the university as ‘a centre of consciousness and human responsibility’ in the face of what he saw as the relentless technological drive of civilisation. With the journal Scrutiny which he co-founded, as well as his critical writings, Leavis became a decisive influence on generations of teachers in Britain and overseas. Widely misrepresented as narrowly elitist, his ideas about ‘the creative university’, with their radical, student-centred approach to teaching, constitute a powerful resource for a higher education system grappling with the contradictory demands of continuity and change. Based on original research, the study provides an overview of Leavis’s life, work and heritage and his educational wor | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | 关键词 | Leavis; Higher Education; University; Creativity; Learning and Teaching; English and Cultural Studies; Hig | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25985-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-25983-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-25985-7Series ISSN 2211-1921 Series E-ISSN 2211-193X | issn_series | 2211-1921 | copyright | The Author(s) 2016 |
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