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L'appello di Liz Coleman per una nuova formazione umanistica

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Liz Coleman, preside del Bennington College, lancia un appello a favore di una riforma radicale dell'istruzione superiore. Rifiutando la tendenza a spingere gli studenti verso aree di apprendimento sempre più ristrette, propone un modello formativo realmente interdisciplinare, una sintesi dinamica di tutte le materie, che consenta di affrontare le grandi questioni del nostro tempo.

Liz Coleman radically remade Bennington College in the mid-1990s, in pursuit of a new vision: higher education as a performing art. Full bio »

Translated into Italian by Elisabetta Zoni
Reviewed by Giacomo Boschi
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