The Liberal Arts and the Jesuit College System

The Liberal Arts and the Jesuit College System
Author: Aldo Scaglione
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9027220352

The Jesuit educational system, with its successful applications in all parts of the world for several centuries, is one of the most durable, influential, and far-reaching experiments in the history of education. In this monograph Aldo Scaglione explores the complex genesis of the system, which it regards essentially as a heritage of Renaissance Humanism; the impact of both Reformation and Catholic Counter-reformation on it; and its conflicts with the secular traditions and systems with which it competed through the centuries.

The Liberal Arts Tradition

The Liberal Arts Tradition
Author: Bruce A. Kimball
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2010-05-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 076185133X

Ranging from Plato in antiquity to Martha Nussbaum in the present era, the authors of the seventy readings included in The Liberal Arts Tradition present significant and exemplary views addressing liberal arts education over the course of its history, particularly in the United States. Most of the documents are newly translated or no longer available in print. Arranged chronologically, each selection is accompanied by an informative introduction and extensive explanatory notes discussing its place within the liberal arts tradition. Based upon the author's twenty-five years of experience leading seminars concerning the history of liberal education, this collection presents a uniquely comprehensive and salient set of documents, while incorporating the neglected portrayal and discussion of women within the history of the liberal arts.

Parallels and Responses to Curricular Innovation

Parallels and Responses to Curricular Innovation
Author: Brad Petitfils
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2014-10-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317860152

This volume explores two radical shifts in history and subsequent responses in curricular spaces: the move from oral to print culture during the transition between the 15th and 16th centuries and the rise of the Jesuits, and the move from print to digital culture during the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries and the rise of what the philosopher Jean Baudrillard called "hyperreality." The curricular innovation that accompanied the first shift is considered through the rise of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). These men created the first "global network" of education, and developed a humanistic curriculum designed to help students navigate a complicated era of the known (human-centered) and unknown (God-centered) universe. The curricular innovation that is proposed for the current shift is guided by the question: What should be the role of undergraduate education become in the 21st century? Today, the tension between the known and unknown universe is concentrated on the interrelationships between our embodied spaces and our digitally mediated ones. As a result, today’s undergraduate students should be challenged to understand how—in the objectively focused, commodified, STEM-centric landscape of higher education—the human subject is decentered by the forces of hyperreality, and in turn, how the human subject might be recentered to balance our humanness with the new realities of digital living. Therein, one finds the possibility of posthumanistic education.

Strange Names of God

Strange Names of God
Author: Sangkeun Kim
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780820471303

One of the most precarious and daunting tasks for sixteenth-century European missionaries in the cross-cultural mission frontiers was translating the name of «God» (Deus) into the local language. When the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) introduced the Chinese term Shangti as the semantic equivalent of Deus, he made one of the most innovative cross-cultural missionary translations. Ricci's employment of Shangti was neither a simple rewording of a Chinese term nor the use of a loan-word, but was indeed a risk-taking «identification» of the Christian God with the Confucian Most-High, Shangti. Strange Names of God investigates the historical progress of the semantic configuration of Shangti as the divine name of the Christian God in China by focusing on Chinese intellectuals' reaction to the strangely translated Chinese name of God.

The Renaissance

The Renaissance
Author: John Jeffries Martin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415260626

The Renaissance paradigm in crisis - Politics, language and power - Individualism, identity and gender - Art, science and humanism - Religion: tradition and innovation.

Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society

Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society
Author: You Guo Jiang
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-12-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004282319

In Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society: A New Perspective on Chinese Higher Education You Guo Jiang, S. J. provides a unique focus on the re-emergence of liberal arts education in China. This is the first book that explores in depth the development of liberal arts education in China. Through the extensive use of first hand materials relating to the liberal arts and current viewpoints of Chinese scholars and higher education leaders, Jiang concludes that China must implement a good liberal arts education program to form responsible global citizens.

Jesuit Education 21

Jesuit Education 21
Author: Martin R. Tripole
Publisher: St. Joseph's University Press
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: