F. R. Leavis The Creative University /

• Main Author: Cranfield, Steven (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Language and education.; Higher education.; Education > Philosophy.; Educational Philosophy.; Higher Education.; Creativity and Arts Education.; Language Education.

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 a...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: the Heretic Who Survived?
• 2 Leavis: Life, Work and Heritage
• 3. Leavis’s Educational World-View
• 4 Leavis and Pedagogy: Critical ‘Theory’
• 5 Leavis and Pedagogy: Critical Practice
• 6 Leavis and the Creative University
• 6 Leavis and the Creative University. .