Shooting the Gap: Engaging Today's Faculty in the Liberal Arts

Autor/in	Moore, Dennis Damon
Titel	Shooting the Gap: Engaging Today's Faculty in the Liberal Arts
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 92 (2006) 3, S.46-51 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Consortia; Course Evaluation; College Faculty; Colleges; General Education; Liberal Arts; Cooperation; Partnerships in Education; Student Attitudes; Intellectual Disciplines + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vereinigung; Fakultät; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Co-operation; Kooperation; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Schülerverhalten; Geisteswissenschaften
Abstract	In this article, the author discusses the issues on the impression of today's students towards liberal education. Results found that, students did not have a working definition of a liberal education and did not spontaneously value the outcomes of such an education. Consequently, students tend to focus on specific course-oriented outcomes; and there is a gap between that focus and the larger consideration of more general skills and capacities that liberal education purports to foster. However, a consortium was held in the fall of 2005, among representatives from fourteen institutional members of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) meeting at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The consortial project aims to formulate a more ways to engage students, faculty members themselves needed to be engaged beyond their departmental and divisional interests and think deliberately about undergraduate education across the curriculum and throughout the college career. In addition, collaboration within individual campuses may be the most important element in the new liberal arts interchange. Disciplinary courses, traditional departments, and academic divisions have historically defined and sometimes circumscribed academic culture in small colleges, and they will undoubtedly play significant and substantial roles in liberal arts education for the foreseeable future. (Contains 1 note.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10