Promoting a Liberal Education.

Autor/in	Brawer, Florence B.
Institution	Center for the Study of Community Colleges, Los Angeles, CA.
Titel	Promoting a Liberal Education.
Quelle	(1982), (14 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Stellungnahme; Academic Education; Advisory Committees; Articulation (Education); Community Colleges; Community Services; Curriculum Development; Curriculum Problems; Honors Curriculum; Humanities; Interdisciplinary Approach; Learning Laboratories; Liberal Arts; Organizational Objectives; Transfer Programs; Two Year Colleges; Vocational Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Akademische Bildung; Beratungsstelle; Articulation; Artikulation (Ling); Artikulation; Aussprache; Community college; Community College; Gemeindenahe Versorgung; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Lernstation; Business goal; Unternehmensziel; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung
Abstract	Within a climate characterized by increasingly diverse and nontraditional student populations and by general student disinterest in learning, the liberal arts have declined precipitously in community colleges. Rather than serving primarily as stepping stones to higher education, community colleges now serve mainly as sources of occupational and remedial education and cultural and recreational activities. Transfer programs have become especially weak with little linearity of sequence in the curriculum. At many colleges efforts have been made to restructure and strengthen the liberal arts, including: (1) the integration of liberal arts courses in community services and continuing education into the regular academic program; (2) the placement of liberal arts instruction in occupational courses; (3) the improvement and expansion of interdisciplinary offerings; (4) the extended use of learning laboratories and other student support services in liberal arts courses; (5) closer articulation with high schools; (6) the establishment or expansion of honors programs to attract gifted students; (7) the creation of liberal arts advisory committees to help formulate goals, evaluate programs, and improve job placement; and (8) the development of a liberal arts career program to prepare students for careers for which an understanding of society and good communications skills and work habits would provide a strong foundation. With involvement, dialogue, and outreach, each of these activities could and should be strengthened. (DB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01