lessons from a renaissance education Newstok, Scott L. 1973- creator text bibliography nju 2021 monographic eng

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xv, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm "This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"-- Of thinking -- Of ends -- Of craft -- Of fit -- Of place -- Of attention -- Of technology -- Of imitation -- Of exercise -- Of conversation -- Of stock -- Of constraint -- Of making -- Of freedom. Scott Newstok. Includes bibliographical references and index. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Crítica e interpretación Thought and thinking Study and teaching Pensamiento Estudio y enseñanza Rhetoric, Renaissance Retórica en el Renacimiento LB 1590.3 N558h 2021 370.11/2 Newstok, Scott, 1973- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020] 1st. (DLC) 2019037257 9780691227696 0691227691 2019037256 DLC 191126 20240402133655.0 21312884 eng