The Liberal Arts in Higher Education

Author: David Weeks
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0761811648

The Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Possibilities

The Liberal Arts in Higher Education launches an institutional effort to establish a shared definition and to clarify the contours of the liberal arts and liberal education by extending centuries-old dialogue to the coeducational, Christian campus of Azusa Pacific University. Download The Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Possibilities from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The book contains 'working' definitions of key terms, including: liberal arts, liberal education, trivium, quadrivium, liberalism, and general education and a cursory review of five paradigms of liberal education. It also presents a description of five perennial debates regarding liberal education: the relationship between moral and intellectual virtue, the disciplinary divide between the sciences and the humanities, the connection between professional and liberal education, Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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