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Peer reviewedBruffee, Kenneth A. – Liberal Education, 1978
The use of a peer tutoring writing program to promote intellectual growth and critical judgment at Brooklyn College is described. The plan makes expository writing the focus of peer influence. Its satisfactory effect on both tutors and tutees and its method of operation are discussed. (LBH)
Descriptors: College Students, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedBruffee, Kenneth A. – Liberal Education, 1985
The twentieth century's reinterpretation of knowledge has important implications for the structure of education generally and, in particular, for the humanities and the way humanists teach. Humanistic studies teaching human tradition, community, and solidarity will contribute greatly to undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Epistemology, Fiction, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBruffee, Kenneth A. – Liberal Education, 1982
Evidence that thought is a displaced social process contradicts the assumptions that the mind is a mirror of nature and thought a private, individual process. A curriculum that involves learning to identify beliefs, to analyze and express beliefs socially, and to understand and form communities of knowledgeable peers is described. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Curriculum, Educational Objectives, General Education


