“Liberal Arts and Sciences … should be read by those persons who wish to seek a higher level of critical, compassionate, and creative thinking, It is well-written, insightful, and is a fascinating examination of education…and significant traits such as honesty, creativity, ethical behavior, and wisdom—concepts that are sorely needed in today’s global world.”
-US Review of Books
Nominated for the American Association of Colleges & University’s 2015 Frederic W. Ness Book Award.
Nominated for the 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award.
“This book will help individuals become more open, courageous, and willing to engage in meaningful and constructive dialogue in their search for truth.”
-Miriam Montano, undergraduate student in California
This book will, first, move the reader through philosophy’s major conceptions as ideas that initiate and sustain educational and learning processes. The book will then provide an historical account of the key periods, development, and continuing contributions of the liberal arts enterprise. The book also includes three chapters on the application dimensions of the liberal arts model of higher learning, mainly its development of critical, creative, and ethical thinking competencies for effective citizenship and problem solving in the world.
Over de auteur
Dr. Christopher Ulloa Chaves has roughly twenty-eight years of professional experience in nonprofit organizations, senior-level national security education, and university-level teaching at institutions including Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Duquesne University, University of New Mexico, and the College of William and Mary. He has also lectured at the Santa Fe Institute. He carries an undergraduate degree in education from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and a doctoral degree in higher education from the University of Southern California. [email protected].
Recommended by the Chinese Society for Academic Degrees and Graduate Education, 2015.
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