What are Classics? • On Justifications for Studying the Humanities • The Humanistic Tradition • Humanistic Aims and Humanitarian Aims • The Humanities in Crisis • A Social Darwinist Curriculum • Character Development as a Curricular Aim • Responding to Various Arguments • On Irving Babbitt
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26 Feb 2021
E58: Digital Tools, Games, and Historical Empathy (A Conversation with James Diamond)
Fundamental Practices in the Art of Teaching • Tool Affordances and Human Effectivities • On Classrooms as Constrained Environments • The Business of Education • Tools Can Support Motivation • Pitfalls of The Profit Motive in the Education Space • Distinguishing Between Game-Based Learning, Gamification, and Gameful Learning • A Game as a Logical System • Gaming and Performance-Based Assessments • Environmental Constraints • Simulations/Games • An Example • On Historical Empathy • On Edutainment • Structural Values of Game-Based Learning • Historical Simulations and Inglorious Bastards
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9 Feb 2021
E57: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education
Index
Conservative Professors and Job Satisfaction • A Conservative Case for Liberal Education • Campus Cultures • Demands, Dialogue, and Scrutiny • What We Talk About When We Talk About Being Reasonable • On Yielding to Reason as an Authority • What Purposes Do Colleges Serve? • On Media and a Few Perceptions of Campus Cultures • On the Role of Shame on College Campuses • “the culture of cool” • “call-out culture” • Reflections on Euthyphro • Cultivating a Culture of Reason • Intellectual and Democratic Virtues • Building a Bullshit Detector • An Examined Life • The Role of Shame in Learning • Inquiry and Reason on Universities
Works Mentioned (links @ decayofdiscourse.com)
> Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education [Amazon]
> Euthyphro [Google Books]
> Thinking Fast and Slow [Amazon]
> Harvard Holiday Placemat for Social Justice [Business Insider]
> Campus Reform [Twitter]
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