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.
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Chapter 1 A Global Dialogue on Liberal Arts and Sciences: Re-Engagement, Re-Imagination and Experimentation.- Chapter 2 Toward a Nationally Integrated Liberal Studies University Model for the Mid-Twenty-First Century: The Case of the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong.- Chapter 3 The Significance and Practice of Liberal Education in China.- Chapter 4 Innovation in Liberal Education.- Chapter 5 New Liberal Arts and Science Institutions in India and Singapore: The Role of STEM Education.- Chapter 6 Polymathy, New Generalism, and the Future of Work: A Little Theory and some Practice from UCL’s Arts and Sciences BASc Degree.- Chapter 7 University College Freiburg: Towards a New Unity of Research and Teaching in Academia.- Chapter 9 The Liberal Arts and the University. Tracing the Origins and Structure of Undergraduate Education in the US and at the University Of California.- Chapter 10 Transcending Boundaries: Educational Trajectories, Subject Domains and Skills Demands.
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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.
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