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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue: Missing Resources in Higher Education | |
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| Crises of Liberal Learning in the Modern World | |
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| The Place of Liberal Learning | |
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| Sites of Secondary Enculturation | |
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| The Modernity Revolutions | |
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| Liberal Education Encounters Modernity | |
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| The Movement for General Education | |
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| Fallout from the Modernity Revolutions | |
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| Quest for a New Common Learning | |
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| Enter Chicago | |
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| The Making of a Curricular Tradition | |
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| Enter Chicago | |
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| Forming and Nurturing a Tradition | |
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| Themes of the Chicago Tradition | |
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| The Chicago Tradition of Liberal Learning | |
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| Dewey and Hutchins at Chicago | |
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| Dewey as Educator | |
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| Hutchins as an Unwitting (?) Deweyan | |
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| The Hutchins-Dewey Debate | |
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| Richard McKeon: Architecton of Human Powers | |
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| Entering the Fray | |
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| Changing the Humanities Course | |
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| Reconfiguring the Liberal Curriculum | |
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| The Return in the 1960s | |
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| McKeon as Teacher | |
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| Joseph Schwab's Assault on Facile Teaching | |
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| Genesis of an Educator | |
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| Transforming the Natural Science Curriculum | |
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| Transforming Classroom Pedagogy | |
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| Transforming Pedagogy through Examinations | |
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| Transforming Educational Systems | |
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| Pluralistic Thoughtways and Communal Practice | |
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| Schwab and the Chicago Tradition | |
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| What Is Educational about the Study of Civilizations? | |
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| "Civilization" in Educational Discourse | |
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| Civilizational Studies at Chicago | |
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| So, What Is Educational about the Study of Civilizations? | |
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| Reinventing Liberal Education in Our Time | |
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| New Goals for the Liberal Curriculum | |
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| Contested Principles for the Liberal Curriculum | |
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| Choosing a Path | |
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| Goals for the Liberal Curriculum I: Powers of Prehension | |
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| Audiovisual Powers | |
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| Kinesthetic Powers | |
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| Understanding Verbal Texts | |
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| Understanding Worlds | |
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| Goals for the Liberal Curriculum II: Powers of Expression | |
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| Forming a Self | |
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| Inventing Statements, Problems, and Actions | |
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| Integrating Knowledge | |
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| Communicating | |
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| New Ways of Framing Pedagogy | |
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| Modalities of Teaching and Learning | |
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| From "Teaching" to Teaching Powers | |
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| A Repertoire of Teaching Forms | |
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| Approaches to Testing | |
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| My Experiments in Teaching Powers | |
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| Searching for Disciplines | |
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| Basic Practice | |
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| Disciplines as Ways of Getting into Conversations | |
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| Disciplines as Ways of Connecting Conversations | |
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| Epilogue: The Fate of Liberal Learning | |
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| Appendix: Three Syllabi for Teaching Powers at Chicago | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |