Moving from General Education to Liberal Education

Autor/in	Arnold, David L.
Titel	Moving from General Education to Liberal Education
Quelle	In: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 38 (2006) 3, S.48-49 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-1383
Schlagwörter	General Education; Majors (Students); Bachelors Degrees; Critical Thinking; Portfolios (Background Materials); Seminars; Student Projects; Student Experience; Interdisciplinary Approach; College Curriculum; Curriculum Development; Educational Change; Educational Philosophy; Liberal Arts; Higher Education; Intellectual Disciplines + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Kritisches Denken; Seminar; Schulprojekt; Studienerfahrung; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Bildungsreform; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Geisteswissenschaften
Abstract	Across America, colleges and universities proclaim their commitment to liberal education through general education mission statements touting outcomes such as increased intellectual awareness, breadth of learning, communication skills, and critical thinking. According to this author, however, general education programs are burdened by several fatal flaws that make them the wrong repository of hopes of liberally educating students. In order to remedy these flaws, the author proposes a new and required element for every major that he terms "Synthesis" and "Context." The Synthesis and Context component of every bachelor's degree major should require the following: (1) A course in methods of problem formulation and inquiry within the discipline; (2) An interdisciplinary seminar every semester during the junior and senior years; and (3) A student-maintained major portfolio and senior project that demonstrate the student's growth and capacity to self-assess, as well as his or her ability to make connections among courses. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10