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Tiêu đề
A return to understanding: Making liberal education valuable again
Tác giả
Haberberger C.
Năm xuất bản
2018
Source title
Educational Philosophy and Theory
Số trích dẫn
12
DOI
10.1080/00131857.2017.1342157
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Critical literature on liberal education since the 1990s discerns two main trends which pose a serious threat to liberal education in the contemporary world. These are, firstly, the trend of liberal arts colleges offering a more professional curriculum and, secondly, the trend among universities and colleges in general to promote values which used to be inherently liberal. The result is that liberal arts colleges risk becoming superfluous as educational institutions, given that they no longer add anything distinctive in today’s society. This article proposes that a return in their core curriculum to more traditional philosophies of liberal education could supply liberal arts colleges with the necessary measure of distinction to preserve their inherent value to society. © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Từ khóa
Liberal education; understanding; vocationalism; wisdom
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Nơi xuất bản
Routledge
Hình thức xuất bản
Article
Open Access
All Open Access; Hybrid Gold Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus