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Northrop Frye's Writings on Education
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This volume brings together 95 different pieces on education by Frye and touching on a range of subjects including teaching (from kindergarten to university), literary studies, the nature of the un...
This volume brings together 95 different pieces on education by Frye and touching on a range of subjects including teaching (from kindergarten to university), literary studies, the nature of the university, student radicalism, and educational policy.
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- Creator
- Northrop Frye; ed. by Jean O'Grady and Goldwin French
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9781442677913, 1442677910
- OCLC
- on1013954407
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Credits -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Bob -- 2. Victoria College Debating Parliament -- 3. That Trinity Debate -- 4. The Case against Examinations -- 5. Arthur Richard Cragg -- 6. On the Frosh: An Editorial -- 7. Editorial in Undress (I) -- 8. James Delmer Martin -- 9. The Question of Maturity: An Editorial -- 10. Editorial in Undress (II) -- 11. Editorial in Undress (III) -- 12. The Pass Course: A Polemic -- 13. A Liberal Education -- 14. Education and the Humanities -- 15. Back to Work -- 16. For Whom the Dunce Cap Fits -- 17. Have We a National Education? -- 18. The Study of English in Canada -- 19. Address to the Graduating Class of Victoria College -- 20. Humanities in a New World -- 21. Greetings from the Principal -- 22. By Liberal Things -- 23. Senior Dinner Address -- 24. The Critical Discipline -- 25. Dialogue Begins -- 26. Push-Button Gadgets May Help- But the Teacher Seems Here to Stay -- 27. Autopsy on an Old Grad's Grievance -- 28. Introduction to Design for Learning -- 29. The Developing Imagination -- 30. To the Class of '62 at Queen's -- 31. The Changing Pace in Canadian Education -- 32. The Dean of Women -- 33. Convocation Address, University of British Columbia -- 34. The Principal's Message -- 35. We Are Trying to Teach a Vision of Society -- 36. Elementary Teaching and Elemental Scholarship -- 37. Foreword to The Living Name -- 38. Education-Protection against Futility -- 39. The Classics and the Man of Letters -- 40. Charles Bruce Sissons, 1879-1965 -- 41. New Programmes -- 42. Report on the "Adventures" Readers -- 43. Speculation and Concern -- 44. The Time of the Flood -- 45. The Instruments of Mental Production -- 46. Speech at a Freshman Welcome -- 47. The Knowledge of Good and Evil -- 48. A New Principal for Victoria -- 49. The Question of "Success" -- 50. A Meeting of Minds -- 51. Higher Education and Personal Life -- 52. The University and the Heroic Vision -- 53. Convocation Address, Franklin and Marshall -- 54. Book Learning and Barricades -- 55. The Social Importance of Literature -- 56. Research and Graduate Education in the Humanities -- 57. The Ethics of Change: The Role of the University -- 58. The University and Personal Life: Student Anarchism and the Educational Contract -- 59. An Ideal University Community -- 60. In Memoriam: Miss Jessie Macpherson -- 61. The Day of Intellectual Battle: Reflections on Student Unrest -- 62. Convocation Address, York University -- 63. Congratulatory Statement to Dartmouth -- 64. Hart House Rededicated -- 65. On Horace -- 66. A Revolution Betrayed: Freedom and Necessity in Education -- 67. The Definitiaon of a University -- 68. Education and the Rejection of Reality -- 69. On Teaching Literature -- 70. Wright Report (I) -- 71. Wright Report (II) -- 72. Universities and the Deluge of Cant -- 73. The Critic and the Writer -- 74. Foreword to The Child as Critic -- 75. Preface to ADE and ADFL Bulletins -- 76. Address at the Installation of Gordon Keyes as Principal of Victoria College -- 77. Presidential Address at the MLA -- 78. Reminiscences -- 79. The Teacher's Source of Authority -- 80. Address on Receiving the Royal Bank Award -- 81. Installation Address as Chancellor -- 82. The Chancellor's Message -- 83. Criticism as Education -- 84. The Beginning of the Word -- 85. Installation of Alvin A. Lee -- 86. The View from Here -- 87. The Authority of Learning -- 88. Language as the Home of Human Life -- 89. On Living inside Real Life -- 90. Farewell to Goldwin French -- 91. Foreword to English Studies at Toronto -- 92. Preface to On Education -- 93. Preface to From Cobourg to Toronto -- 94. Unpublished Introduction to Beyond Communication -- 95. Woman Heads University -- Appendix. Educational Pieces Omitted from The Collected Works -- Notes -- Emendations -- Index