Full Description
This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for excellence and relevance in undergraduate education, contributors examine if it can be implemented in different contexts and across academic cultures, structures, and traditions.
Contents
Chapter 1 A Global Dialogue on Liberal Arts and Sciences: Re-Engagement, Re-Imagination and Experimentation.- Chapter 2 Toward a Nationally Integrated Liberal Studies University Model for the Mid-Twenty-First Century: The Case of the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong.- Chapter 3 The Significance and Practice of Liberal Education in China.- Chapter 4 Innovation in Liberal Education.- Chapter 5 New Liberal Arts and Science Institutions in India and Singapore: The Role of STEM Education.- Chapter 6 Polymathy, New Generalism, and the Future of Work: A Little Theory and some Practice from UCL's Arts and Sciences BASc Degree.- Chapter 7 University College Freiburg: Towards a New Unity of Research and Teaching in Academia.- Chapter 9 The Liberal Arts and the University. Tracing the Origins and Structure of Undergraduate Education in the US and at the University Of California.- Chapter 10 Transcending Boundaries: Educational Trajectories, Subject Domains and Skills Demands. <
