Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents

ISBN-13: 9781349948918 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 145 str.

Marijk Van Der Wende; William Kirby

Opis

This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for excellence and relevance in undergraduate education, contributors examine if it can be implemented in different contexts and across academic cultures, structures, and traditions.

Spis treści

1. A Global Dialogue on Liberal Arts and Sciences: Re-engagement, Re-imagination and Experimentation

William Kirby (Harvard University) and Marijk van der Wende (Amsterdam University College)

2. China’s Search for its Liberal Arts and Sciences Model 

Gerard Postiglione (The University of Hong Kong)

3. The Significance and Practice of Liberal Education in China: The Case of Tsinghua University

Li Cao (Tsinghua University)

4. In Asia, For the World: Liberal Education and Innovation

Pericles Lewis (Yale-National University Singapore)

5. New Liberal Arts and Sciences Institutions in India and Singapore – the Role of STEM Education<

Bryan Penprase (Pomona College / Yale-National University Singapore)

6. Polymathy, New Generalism and the Future of Work: A Little Theory and Some Practice from UCL’s Arts and Sciences degree

Carl Gombrich (University College London)

7. University College Freiburg: Towards a New Unity of Research and Teaching in Academia 

Nicholas Eschenbruch – Hans-Joachim Gehrke – Paul Sterzel (University College Freiburg)

8. The Liberal Arts and the University: Lessons for China in the History of Undergraduate Education In the US and at the University of California

Nicholas Dirks (University California Berkeley)

9. Transcending Boundaries: Educational Trajectories, Subject Domains and Skills Demands

Dirk van Damme (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Ghent University)

O autorze

William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University, USA, and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

Marijk van der Wende is the Dean of Graduate Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Blurb

This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for excellence and relevance in undergraduate education, contributors examine if it can be implemented in different contexts and across academic cultures, structures, and traditions. 

William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University, USA, and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

Marijk van der Wende is the Dean of Graduate Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.