Joseph Schwab’s Assault on Facile Teaching*

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This paper is translation and summary of the sixth chapter of Levine’s Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America (2006). The former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine in his marvelous summary of academic life of the educational thinker Joseph Schwab who has a considerable contribution to reinvention of liberal learning in the higher education, Beside  illustrating the scientific endeavors of an eminent scientist and the educational challenges of a legendary pedagogue to realize his aspirations, analyzes the critical transformations which have contributed to constituting a paradigm for liberal arts. The  challenging viewpoints  posed by Schwab have left in depth impacts on the field of curriculum studies, both in theory and practice, and have  stimulated critical transformations

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