ERIC Number: EJ962015
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 8
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Leaving Western Civ behind
McNeill, William H.
Liberal Education, v97 n3-4 p40-47 Sum-Fall 2011
In this article, the author shares his experiences in his undergraduate years and how he was influenced by his professors regarding human history. The author believes that social change very often arose from encounters with strangers who possessed some obviously superior skill or knowledge that locals could borrow and adjust to their own use. His college years contributed lasting assumptions he used when working out all his subsequent notions about human history.
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Archaeology, Social Change, Social History, Student Experience, Undergraduate Students, Social Development, Intellectual Development, Educational Experience, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Western Civilization, World Views, Theory of Mind, Ideology
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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