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Tiêu đề
The Fate (and Possible Future) of Liberal Learning: Lessons from Mass Higher Education in the USA
Tác giả
Hermanowicz J.C.
Năm xuất bản
2021
Source title
Society
Số trích dẫn
1
DOI
10.1007/s12115-021-00557-z
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
In his classic essay, “Problems in the Transition from Elite to Mass Higher Education,” Martin Trow observed that in every advanced society, the problems of higher education—including ostensibly the ability to deliver a liberal education—inhere in growth. With growth, the character of institutions changes. University attendance increasingly carries varied meanings for students: first conceived as a privilege, then as a right, and finally as an obligation. “Massification” is connoted with an optimism about access to higher education and about the democratization of society. Yet, it is prone to propagating structural and cultural conditions that are antithetical to an authentically rigorous, text-based, discussion-centered, writing-intensive liberal education where students and faculty convene on behalf of education for the mind. The emergence of this problem centers on the seemingly irreconcilable triad of size, quality, and cost; that is, how liberal education is made possible and cost-effective on an increasingly large scale. The solutions suggested here are threefold: the institutionalization of proper information about universities, their purposes and functions; the practice of proper matching of applicants with institutions in institutionally differentiated higher education systems; and the standardization of proper understanding of expectations about what it means to be a bona-fide student in an institution of higher education. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Từ khóa
Colleges and Universities; Faculty; Learning; Liberal Arts; Massification; Students; Undergraduate Education
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Springer
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Article
Open Access
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Scopus