A liberal arts education: Global trends and challenges

A liberal arts education: Global trends and challenges

• Logan, Jerry Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, USA
• Curry, Janel Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, USA

Christian Higher Education, 14(1), 66-79, 2015

Routledge

2015

• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GF 人文學科及藝術
    • GFA 教學目標、課程及評鑑
• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PB 香港教育各層面與外地之比較

Humanistic Education Curricula (Courses of Study) Higher Education Christian Universities & Colleges United States Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 未指定或無法歸類

The debate about the effectiveness of the liberal arts curriculum is centuries old, but recent financial and social pressures have placed the survival of the liberal arts in the United States at even greater risk. Using Kimball's (1995) notion of the oratorical and philosophical traditions of liberal education, this article first identifies the critical importance of balancing breadth and depth in the curriculum before honing in on breadth as being in particular danger in the current climate. After analyzing the major threats to breadth in American higher education, the article looks overseas to find a new case for the value of breadth in the curriculum. It focuses on Hong Kong's university system, where a large-scale, multiyear project is underway to graft a fourth year of general education onto a three-year model of discipline- or profession-specific training. The resulting contrast between American institutions discarding curricular breadth while foreign universities rediscover it is telling. This topic has particular relevance for Christian colleges and universities as they seek the holistic development of their students.
Copyright of Christian Higher Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15363759.2015.973344

• 英文

期刊論文

• 15363759

• 10.1080/15363759.2015.973344

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/34b07c1b

2015-03-12