Download or read book Unifying the Liberal College Curriculum written by Association of American Colleges. Commission on the Organization of the College Curriculum and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library Leaflet written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Defense of a Liberal Education written by Fareed Zakaria and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition. The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education—how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning—precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.
Download or read book Rethinking Liberal Education written by Nicholas H. Farnham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from a symposium jointly sponsored by the Educational Leadership Program and the American Council of Learned Societies, this work looks at the requirements of liberal education for the next century and the strategies of getting there. Rethinking Liberal Education proposes better ways of connecting the curriculum and organization of liberal art colleges with today's challenging economic and social realities. The authors push for greater flexibility in the organizational structure of academic departments, and argue that faculty should play a greater role in the hard discussions that shape their institutions.
Download or read book The Future of the Liberal College written by Norman Foerster and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Liberal College written by Alexander Meiklejohn and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Liberal Education written by Timothy Burns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberal Education, once the whole of American Higher Education, has been displaced by technical training and career-oriented majors. But it has also suffered from the decline in genuine liberal learning found in humanities disciplines, owing to specialization, politicization, and the adoption of new literary and psychological theories. The social sciences, too, have arguably abandoned the kind of relentless and sometimes disturbing questioning that used to constitute the core of education. In this compelling volume, thirteen college educators describe in sparkling prose what liberal education is, its place in a liberal democracy, the very serious challenges it faces in the 21st century—even from some of its alleged friends—and why it is important to sustain and expand liberal education’s place in American colleges and universities. Proponents and critics of liberal education alike will benefit from these insightful essays. This book was originally published as a special issue of Perspectives on Political Science.
Download or read book The Battleground of the Curriculum written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the current debates about the curriculum in historical context and offers considerations for the future.
Download or read book List of References on Higher Education written by United States. Bureau of Education and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum written by Patti McGill Peterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative research on higher education in developing and transitional countries is often focused on such issues as access, finance, student mobility and the impact of globalization, but there has been little attention to curriculum and the forces that shape it. Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum fills an important gap in the literature by examining the context, content, challenges, and successes of implementing liberal arts coursework within undergraduate curriculum. In order to fully understand the place of liberal education in each location, chapter authors have employed a wide lens to investigate the influences upon curricular content in China, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, South Africa, and Turkey. Thus, this volume explores how curricular content is decided, how educational programs are being structured, and whether countries are viewing higher education as more than just the preparation of students for specialized knowledge. By providing detailed case studies of these countries at crucial transition points in their higher education systems, each chapter outlines the state of higher education system and the government’s role, the impact of imported models, the presence of a liberal education, the curricular formation, and best examples of successful programs. Ultimately, this volume depicts how global influences have come to rest in developing countries and how market forces far removed from faculty and students have shaped the undergraduate curriculum. This valuable book is of interest to scholars and researchers in Higher Education as well as practitioners working to foster student and faculty exchange and raise awareness of curricular issues.
Download or read book Liberal and Vocational Studies in the College written by Henry Waldgrave Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Directions Liberal Arts Missions and Curriculum in the University Setting written by University of Minnesota. College of Liberal Arts. Panel on Education in the Liberal Arts and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effective College written by Robert Lincoln Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of reports on the investigation made by the Association of American Colleges to discover the characteristics of an effective college. cf. Introd.
Download or read book Christian Liberal Arts Education written by Calvin College and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Liberal College in Changing Society written by John Black Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Search for the Liberal College written by J. Winfree Smith and published by Annapolis, Md. : St. John's College Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book List of References on Higher Education written by United States. Office of Education. Library Services Branch and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
