The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age

Peter Marber, Daniel Araya (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-18443-5 (ISBN)

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Advanced and developing countries across the globe are embracing the liberal arts approach in higher education to foster more innovative human capital to compete in the global economy. Even as interest in the tradition expands outside the United States, can the democratic philosophy underlying the liberal arts tradition be sustained? Can developing countries operating under heavy authoritarian systems cultivate schools predicated on open discussion and debate? Can entrenched specialist systems in Europe and Asia successfully adopt the multidisciplinary liberal arts model? These are some of the questions put to leading scholars and senior higher education practitioners within this edited collection. Beginning with historical context, international contributors explore the contours of liberal arts education amid public calls for change in the United States, the growing global interest in the approach outside the United States, as well as the potential of liberal arts philosophy in a global knowledge economy.

Peter Marber lectures on emerging markets and socioeconomic development in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, USA. Daniel Araya is a Hult-Ashridge Research Fellow at the Hult Center for Disruptive Innovation in San Francisco, USA.

Contents

Foreword - Cathy N. Davidson

Preface

Part I: The American Tradition

The Yale Report of 1828
A Committee of the Corporation and the Academic Faculty

The Declension Narrative, the Liberal Arts College, and the University
Bruce A. Kimball

Amending the Liberal Arts: An Analysis of Learning Outcomes for Professional Majors
Graham N. S. Miller, Cindy A. Kilgo, Mark Archibald, and Ernest T. Pascarella

The Lure of Liberal Arts: Emerging Market Undergraduates in the United States
Peter Marber

Next-Generation Challenges for Liberal Education
Jesse H. Lytle and Daniel H. Weiss

Part II: Liberal Arts Around the World

Précis of a Global Liberal Education Phenomenon: The Empirical Story
Kara A. Godwin

The Emergence of Liberal Arts and Sciences Education in Europe: A Comparative Perspective
Marijk van der Wende

Thinking Critically about Liberal Arts Education: Yale-NUS College in Singapore
Charlene Tan

Academic Freedom and the Liberal Arts in the Middle East: Can the US Model be Replicated?
Neema Noori

The African Liberal Arts: Heritage, Challenges and Prospects
Grant Lilford

Part III: Evolutions and Revolutions in the Global Age

Is "Design Thinking" the New Liberal Arts?
Peter N. Miller

Hong Kong’s Liberal Arts Laboratory: Design-Thinking, Practical Wisdom, and the Common Core@HKU
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

Liberal Arts Education in the Age of Machine Intelligence
Daniel Araya

Work, Service, and the Liberal Arts: Campus and Community as Pedagogical Resources
Steven L. Solnick

The Promise of Liberal Education in the Global Age
Christopher B. Nelson

Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global Connection
Martha Nussbaum

About the Editors and Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2017
Zusatzinfo	7 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-138-18443-8 / 1138184438
ISBN-13	978-1-138-18443-5 / 9781138184435
Zustand	Neuware