Liberal arts education in a changing society : a new perspective on Chinese higher education / by You Guo Jiang, S.J. by Jiang, You Guo, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Liberal Arts and China's Higher Education; Foreword: The Relevance of the Liberal Arts in a Global Context; 1 Introduction; Conceptual Framework; Definitions of Liberal Arts Education; Defining Liberal Arts Education in the Chinese Context; Methodology; Validity and Reliability; Content of Chapters; Significance of This Book; Liberal Arts Education in a Global Context; Recent Discussions of Liberal Arts Education in China; Conclusion; 2 Liberal Arts Education in the Chinese Context; Confucian Tradition; Transformation of Western Tradition and Culture.…”
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Memory, invention, and delivery : transmitting and transforming knowledge and culture in liberal arts education for the future. Selected proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Memphis, Tennessee, April 17-19, 2009 /...

Table of Contents: “…; The Cunning of Tradition; Of the Wings of Atalanta-Meaning and Dualism in DuBois, Morrison, and Historically Black, Liberal Arts Education ; Platonic Forms as a Model of Modern Physics: Confessions of an Experimental Physicist ; Liberal Education and the Liberal Arts; Liberal Education: Transmitting Knowledge through Texts; Why Should Science Majors Waste Their Time on Great Books; Medieval Political Philosophy, Christianity, and the Liberal Arts…”
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Education / David Haugen and Susan Musser, book editor.

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The communication centers and oral communication programs in higher education : advantages, challenges, and new directions / Eunkyong Lee Yook. by Yook, Eunkyong Lee

Table of Contents: “…Communication centers and liberal arts education: problems and possibilities associated with cross-disciplinary engagements /…”
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The Black studies reader / Jacqueline Bobo, Cynthia Hudley, Claudine Michel, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Black studies in liberal arts education /…”
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American universities abroad : the leadership of independent transnational higher education institutions / edited by Ted Purinton and Jennifer Skaggs.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction: understanding American and liberal arts universities around the world / Ted Purinton and Jennifer Skaggs -- Achieving liberal arts education transnationally: where from, how, and where to? …”
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Liberal arts at the brink / Victor E. Ferrall, Jr. by Ferrall, Victor E., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Liberal arts colleges and why we should care about them -- The economic health of liberal arts colleges -- The declining demand for liberal arts education -- Competing -- Cooperating -- Recruiting -- Liberal arts teachers: a profile -- Employing and deploying faculty for teaching excellence -- Tenure -- Curriculums -- At the brink.…”
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The fate of liberal arts in today's schools and colleges / William Hayes. by Hayes, William, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Origins of the idea -- Liberal arts in the schools and colleges in early America -- The first public schools in America -- The establishment of vocational schools -- The community college -- The progressive education movement -- History becomes the social studies -- Philosophy as a component of a liberal arts education -- Latin and other foreign languages in the liberal arts tradition -- The future of the arts in our schools and colleges -- The impact of technology on the liberal arts -- C.P. …”
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College in prison : reading in an age of mass incarceration / Daniel Karpowitz. by Karpowitz, Daniel

Feminism in action : building institutions and community through women's studies / Jean Fox O'Barr. by O'Barr, Jean F.

Table of Contents: “…: questions from students in the 1980s -- The necessity of women's studies in a liberal arts education -- How the inquiry into women's studies grew -- Understanding women's diversities and commonalities -- "Just an experiment for my women's studies class" : female students and the culture of gender -- Assessing curriculum transformation through student observations.…”

Substance, judgment, and evaluation : seeking the worth of a liberal arts, core text education : selected papers from the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Chicago, Illinois, April 6-9, 2006 / edited by Patrick T. Flynn ... [et al.].

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Liberal Learning; Liberal Learning, Chicago Style: Reflections on a Founding Tradition in Liberal Arts Education; Plato and the Ideal of Liberal Education; John Henry Newman on Liberal Learning and Openness to the Mystery of Creation in The Idea of a University; Learning and Life; Plato on Educating Rulers; Beatrice and Pearl; Of Stomachs and Gold Teeth: The Limits of Dehumanization in Elie Wiesel's Night; Albert Camus's The Plague: Finding Meaning in a Post-Modern World; Memory is Necessary for Freedom.…”
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Transforming the curriculum : ethnic studies and women's studies / edited by Johnnella E. Butler and John C. Walter.

Table of Contents: “…Difficult dialogue of curriculum transformation : ethnic studies and women's studies -- Funding women's studies -- Private foundation grants to American ethnic studies departments and programs, 1972-1988 : patterns and prospects -- Different voices : a model institute for integrating women of color into undergraduate American literature and history courses -- Transforming the curriculum : teaching about women of color -- Teaching "white women, racism and anti-racism" in a women's studies program -- Gender and thetransformation of a survey course in Afro-American history -- Black studies in liberal arts education -- Towards an epistemology of ethnic studies : African American studies and Chicano studies contributions -- Is Jewish studies ethnic studies? …”

Fostering the Liberal Arts in the 21st-Century Community College : New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 163. by Kroll, Keith

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Understanding institutional diversity in American higher education / issue edited by Michael S. Harris.

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Amherst in the world / edited by Martha Saxton.

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Earth in mind : on education, environment, and the human prospect / David W. Orr. by Orr, David W., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking education: Rating colleges -- The problem of disciplines and the discipline of problems -- Professionalism and the human prospect -- Designing minds -- Architecture as pedagogy -- Agriculture and the liberal arts -- Educating a constituency for the long haul -- Part 4. …”

Nathan B. Young and the struggle over Black higher education / Antonio F. Holland. by Holland, Antonio Frederick, 1943-

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Bringing Forth a World : Engaged Pedagogy in the Japanese University. by Bradley, Joff P. N.

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America goes to college : political theory for the liberal arts / John E. Seery. by Seery, John Evan

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Creating citizens : liberal arts, civic engagement, and the land-grant tradition / edited by Brigitta R. Brunner.

Table of Contents: “…Kelly -- Community Inquiry in the Writing Classroom : Bridging Liberal Arts Education with the Work of Community and Civic Engagement / Chad Wickman -- Bridges across Wire / Kyes Stevens with James Emmett Ryan -- An Exploration of Outreach Opportunities for College German Programs in Alabama / Iulia Pittman and Anne-Katrin Gramberg -- Nobody Is Telling Our Story / Nan Fairley -- Culturing Connection, Growing Community : The Art in Agriculture Initiative / Christopher McNulty and Barb Bondy -- Group Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Community-Based Research with a Family Focus / Elizabeth Brestan-Knight and Timothy S. …”
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