Liberal arts education and colleges in East Asia : possibilities and challenges in the global age
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Liberal arts education and colleges in East Asia : possibilities and challenges in the global age
(Higher education in Asia : quality, excellence and governance)
Springer, c2016
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book discusses liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in the context of East Asia, specifically focusing on Japan, China and S. Korea where it has become an emerging issue in higher education in recent years. It first explores the development, concepts and challenges of liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in East Asia. It then delineates the implications of the best practices of selected liberal arts colleges inside and outside East Asia, and offers policy and pedagogical guidelines for the future of liberal arts colleges and programs in East Asia and beyond.
Table of Contents
Part I
Setting the Scene.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Development of Liberal
Arts Education and Colleges: Historical and global perspectives.- Chapter 3 The
East-West Axis? Liberal Arts Education in East Asian universities.- Part II
Examining Liberal Arts Colleges and Programs in East Asia.- Chapter 4 Going
global and adapting to local context: Handong Global University in South
Korea.- Chapter 5 Liberal Arts for a New Japan: The case of the International
Christian University.- Chapter 6 Making the Global Local: Twenty years at
Miyazaki International College, Japan.- Chapter 7 Adapting the Western model of
Liberal Arts Education in China: The cases of Fudan University and Lingnan
University.- Chapter 8 Liberal Arts Education in Postwar Taiwan: A case study
on General Education Reform at National Taiwan University.- Part III Learning
from outside East Asia.- Chapter 9 Global education with high impact and deep
learning in the United States: The Liberal Arts at Pomona College.- Chapter 10
Liberal Arts and Sciences Education for the 21st Knowledge Economy: A case
study of Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands.- Part IV Exploring
Sustainable Models in East Asian Context.- Chapter 11 Revisiting key values,
roles and challenges of Liberal Arts Education in East Asia.- Chapter 12
Cultivating Intercultural Communicative Competence in Liberal Arts
Institutions.- Chapter 13 Applications of digital technologies in Liberal Arts
Institutions in East Asia.- Chapter 14 Internationalization and Faculty
well-being in Liberal Arts Colleges: An often neglected issue in East Asia.- Chapter
15 Conclusions: Summary, remaining issues and recommendations.
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