Full Description
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.
Contents
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
