Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age

<p>Advanced and developing countries across the globe are embracing the liberal arts approach in higher education to foster more innovative human capital to compete in the global economy. Even as interest in the tradition expands outside the United States, can the democratic philosophy underlying the liberal arts tradition be sustained? Can developing countries operating under heavy authoritarian systems cultivate schools predicated on open discussion and debate? Can entrenched specialist systems in Europe and Asia successfully adopt the multidisciplinary liberal arts model? These are some of the questions put to leading scholars and senior higher education practitioners within this edited collection. Beginning with historical context, international contributors explore the contours of liberal arts education amid public calls for change in the United States, the growing global interest in the approach outside the United States, as well as the potential of liberal arts philosophy in a global knowledge economy.</p> <p><strong>Contents</strong></p><p><em>Foreword - Cathy N. Davidson</em></p><p><em>Preface</em></p><p><b>Part I: The American Tradition</b></p><ol> <p> </p> <li>The Yale Report of 1828 </li> <i> </i><p>A Committee of the Corporation and the Academic Faculty</p> <p> </p> <li>The Declension Narrative, the Liberal Arts College, and the University</li> <i> </i><p>Bruce A. Kimball</p> <p> </p> <li>Amending the Liberal Arts: An Analysis of Learning Outcomes for Professional Majors</li> <i> </i><p>Graham N. S. Miller, Cindy A. Kilgo, Mark Archibald, and Ernest T. Pascarella</p> <p> </p> <li>The Lure of Liberal Arts: Emerging Market Undergraduates in the United States</li> <i> </i><p>Peter Marber </p> <p> </p> <li>Next-Generation Challenges for Liberal Education</li> <i> </i><p>Jesse H. Lytle and Daniel H. Weiss</p> <p><strong>Part II: Liberal Arts Around the World</strong></p> <p> </p> <li>Précis of a Global Liberal Education Phenomenon: The Empirical Story</li> <i> </i><p>Kara A. Godwin </p> <p> </p> <li>The Emergence of Liberal Arts and Sciences Education in Europe: A Comparative Perspective</li> <i> </i><p>Marijk van der Wende</p> <p> </p> <li>Thinking Critically about Liberal Arts Education: Yale-NUS College in Singapore</li> <i> </i><p>Charlene Tan</p> <p> </p> <li>Academic Freedom and the Liberal Arts in the Middle East: Can the US Model be Replicated?</li> <i> </i><p>Neema Noori</p> <p> </p> <li>The African Liberal Arts: Heritage, Challenges and Prospects</li> <i> </i><p>Grant Lilford</p> <p>Part III: Evolutions and Revolutions in the Global Age</p> <p> </p> <li>Is "Design Thinking" the New Liberal Arts?</li> <i> </i><p>Peter N. Miller</p> <p> </p> <li>Hong Kong’s Liberal Arts Laboratory: Design-Thinking, Practical Wisdom, and the Common Core@HKU </li> <i> </i><p>Gray Kochhar-Lindgren</p> <p> </p> <li>Liberal Arts Education in the Age of Machine Intelligence<br><i>Daniel Araya</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Work, Service, and the Liberal Arts: Campus and Community as Pedagogical Resources<br><i>Steven L. Solnick</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>The Promise of Liberal Education in the Global Age<br><i>Christopher B. Nelson</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global Connection<br><i>Martha Nussbaum </i> </li> </ol><p>About the Editors and Contributors</p><p>Index</p>