Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives of Developing and Transitional Countries
Redaktion: Peterson, Patti McGill

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum fills an important gap in the literature by examining the context, content, challenges, and successes of implementing liberal arts coursework within undergraduate curriculum.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136461873
• Artikelnr.: 38274484

Autorenporträt

Patti McGill Peterson is Presidential Adviser for Global Initiatives at the American Council on Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 A Global Framework: Liberal Education in the Undergraduate
Curriculum, Patti McGill Peterson
Chapter 2 China: General Education Grounded in Tradition in a Rapidly
Changing Society, Kathryn Mohrman, Jinghuan Shi, and Manli Li
Chapter 3 India: Structural Roadblocks to Academic Reform, Pawan Agarwal
and Rajashree Srinivasan
Chapter 4 Mexico: Higher Education, the Liberal Arts, and Prospects for
Curricular Change, Wietse de Vries and José Francisco Romero
Chapter 5 Pakistan: Liberal Education in Context, Policy, and Practice,
Zulfiqar H. Guiliani
Chapter 6 Poland: The Place of Liberal Education in Post-Soviet Higher
Education, Ewa Kowalski
Chapter 7 Russia: Against the Tide, Liberal Arts Establishes a Foothold in
Post-Soviet Russia, Jonathan Becker, Andrei Kortunov, and Philip Fedchin
Chapter 8 South Africa: Reimagining Liberal Learning in a Post-Apartheid
Curriculum, Michael Cross and Fatima Adam
Chapter 9 Turkey: Obstacles to and Examples of Curriculum Reform, Kemal
Gürüz
Chapter 10 Comparative Observations: Problems and Prospects, Patti McGill
Peterson
List of Contributors
Index