Education for life Great books seminars as a way to provide today’s university students with a personally meaningful and civically relevant education

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Emma Cohen de Lara
Universitat d'Amsterdam / Universidad de Navarra

Les universitats modernes poden considerar-se com a institucions amb tres missions: oferir educació professional, recerca i formació científica, i educació liberal. L’argument principal de l’article és que l’educació liberal, definida com el desenvolupament de l’estudiant com a persona íntegra, complementa l’educació professional i científica, i mereix més atenció donades les preocupacions actuals sobre els estudiants i les societats. Es presenta una breu història de l’educació liberal i dels seminaris sobre grans llibres com una manera d’oferir aquest tipus d’educació, abordant qüestions pràctiques i educatives sobre la selecció de textos i el paper del docent. Finalment, s’ofereix un exemple de text que podria llegir-se en el marc d’aquests seminaris: Where Angels Fear to Tread, d’E.M. Forster.

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Educació liberal, Seminaris de grans llibres, Universitat, Literature, Virtuts intel·lectuals

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Cohen de Lara, Emma. «Education for life: Great books seminars as a way to provide today’s university students with a personally meaningful and civically relevant education». COMPRENDRE: Revista catalana de filosofia, 2025, vol.VOL 27, núm. 2, p. 41-60, doi:10.60940/comprendrev27n2id9900229.
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