Full Description
This book discusses liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in the context of East Asia, specifically focusing on Japan, China and S. Korea where it has become an emerging issue in higher education in recent years. It first explores the development, concepts and challenges of liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in East Asia. It then delineates the implications of the best practices of selected liberal arts colleges inside and outside East Asia, and offers policy and pedagogical guidelines for the future of liberal arts colleges and programs in East Asia and beyond.
Contents
Part I
Setting the Scene.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Development of Liberal
Arts Education and Colleges: Historical and global perspectives.- Chapter 3 The
East-West Axis? Liberal Arts Education in East Asian universities.- Part II
Examining Liberal Arts Colleges and Programs in East Asia.- Chapter 4 Going
global and adapting to local context: Handong Global University in South
Korea.- Chapter 5 Liberal Arts for a New Japan: The case of the International
Christian University.- Chapter 6 Making the Global Local: Twenty years at
Miyazaki International College, Japan.- Chapter 7 Adapting the Western model of
Liberal Arts Education in China: The cases of Fudan University and Lingnan
University.- Chapter 8 Liberal Arts Education in Postwar Taiwan: A case study
on General Education Reform at National Taiwan University.- Part III Learning
from outside East Asia.- Chapter 9 Global education with high impact and deep
learning in the United States: The Liberal Arts at Pomona College.- Chapter 10
Liberal Arts and Sciences Education for the 21st Knowledge Economy: A case
study of Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands.- Part IV Exploring
Sustainable Models in East Asian Context.- Chapter 11 Revisiting key values,
roles and challenges of Liberal Arts Education in East Asia.- Chapter 12
Cultivating Intercultural Communicative Competence in Liberal Arts
Institutions.- Chapter 13 Applications of digital technologies in Liberal Arts
Institutions in East Asia.- Chapter 14 Internationalization and Faculty
well-being in Liberal Arts Colleges: An often neglected issue in East Asia.- Chapter
15 Conclusions: Summary, remaining issues and recommendations.
