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Tiêu đề
A Liberal Arts Education: Global Trends and Challenges
Tác giả
Logan J.; Curry J.
Năm xuất bản
2015
Source title
Christian Higher Education
Số trích dẫn
9
DOI
10.1080/15363759.2015.973344
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
The debate about the effectiveness of the liberal arts curriculum is centuries old, but recent financial and social pressures have placed the survival of the liberal arts in the United States at even greater risk. Using Kimball's (1995) notion of the oratorical and philosophical traditions of liberal education, this article first identifies the critical importance of balancing breadth and depth in the curriculum before honing in on breadth as being in particular danger in the current climate. After analyzing the major threats to breadth in American higher education, the article looks overseas to find a new case for the value of breadth in the curriculum. It focuses on Hong Kong's university system, where a large-scale, multiyear project is underway to graft a fourth year of general education onto a three-year model of discipline- or profession-specific training. The resulting contrast between American institutions discarding curricular breadth while foreign universities rediscover it is telling. This topic has particular relevance for Christian colleges and universities as they seek the holistic development of their students. © 2015, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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Routledge
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Scopus