Description
This book examines and shares concrete and specific strategies and policies for doing liberal arts education in a wide range of contexts. It deepens readers’ understanding of the processes of adopting interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to the development and teaching of liberal arts courses, integrating diversity and inclusion in policies and practices of liberal arts education, and institutionalizing evidence-based policy making. Moreover, it provides educators and policymakers with practical guidelines on how to incorporate core values of liberal arts education.
Table of Contents
1 Liberal arts education: Changes, challenges and choices.- Part I: Interdisciplinary approaches to curriculum development.- 2 The core curriculum: An analysis of liberal arts colleges in Asia, North America and Europe.- 3 Implementing “Week 7” at Yale-NUS College, Singapore: A pedagogical experiment beyond disciplinary boundaries.- 4 Interdisciplinary curriculum and leadership education: The case of Flame University, India.- Part II: Creative ways to integrate key values of liberal arts across subject areas.- 5 Theme-based teaching and interdisciplinary learning: A case study at Amsterdam College, the Netherlands.- 6 Technology-enhanced approaches to the development of intercultural sensitivity in a collaborative language program: A Japanese-Korean Case.- 7 The role of English language teaching for liberal arts education in non-English speaking countries.- 8 Promoting intercultural communication and critical thinking: The impact of intergroup dialogue (IDG) courses at Hope College, USA.- Part III: Diversity and inclusion.- 9 Policies and practices of diversity and inclusion in liberal arts colleges.- 10 Policies and practices of diversity and inclusion in liberal arts colleges.- 11 Meeting strategic gender needs: The case of Asian University for Women, Bangladesh.- 12 Cross cultural learning within a counseling program: The case of Handong Global University, South Korea.- 13 Liberal arts education based on the Jesuit Catholic mission: The case of Sophia University, Japan.- Part IV: Research, evaluation and evidence-based policy making.- 14 Evidence-based policy and decision making at liberal arts colleges: What are they measuring up?.- 15 Institutional research to support planning, decision-making and teaching and learning at Pomona College, USA.- 16 Evaluating study-abroad outcomes: A case of Middlebury College, USA.- 17 Evaluating the General Education System at Yonsei University, South Korea.- 18 Lessons for the future: A conceptual model and practical guidelines.
