Complete Prose Works


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As If Learning Mattered


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Writing with wit and precision, Miller shows why the system of higher education has been particularly resistant to reform. Unraveling stereotypes about conservative, liberal, and radical reform efforts, Miller looks at what has acutally happened when theories about education have been put into practice. What did Matthew Arnold do as a school inspector to promote the study of "the best that has been thought and said in our time"? ...




Questions of English


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Offers a lively and accessible guide through past and present debates about the English curriculum which will appeal to students and practising teachers.




Schools and Universities on the Continent


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A description of European higher education that is unequaled in clarity and comprehensiveness




The Future Without a Past


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"Argues that technological imperatives like rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy have transformed the humanities and altered the relation between humans and nature. Examines technology and its impact on education, historical memory, and technological and literary values in criticism and theory, concluding with an analysis of the fiction of Don DeLillo"--Provided by publisher.