Threshold Concepts in the Development of Problem-solving Skills by Shelly Wismath, Doug Orr, Bruce MacKay

“…This study collected data from students enrolled in a university-level Liberal Education science course called Problems and Puzzles, which introduced students to the theory and practice of problem solving via puzzles. …”
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On the Mission of Humanitarian Education in Higher Technical School by A. A. Polonnikov

“…Among those factors are as follows: giving up the acknowledgement of liberal education crisis, disciplinary isolation, prevalence of scholarly activity model in academic subjects design, and subordination to “knowledge acquisition” process in the organization of educational practice. …”
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Jouer de l’aulos à Athènes était-il politiquement correct ? by Emmanuèle Caire

“…According to Plutarch, the young Alcibiades would have refused to play the aulos on the pretext that this practice distorted the appearance and the features of a man and was unworthy of an Athenian citizen; his example was followed and therefore the aulos was expelled from liberal education in Athens. Other textual and iconographic sources, testify instead of the presence of auloi everywhere in Athenian public and private life, throughout the fifth and fourth centuries. …”
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Time-Optimal Control for Semilinear Stochastic Functional Differential Equations with Delays by Yong Han Kang, Jin-Mun Jeong

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Skole and Historia: A Role for the Study of History in a Catholic School of Leisure by Andrew Seeley

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From Euity Talk to Equity Walk : Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education / by McNair, Tia Brown, 1952- , author 632616, Bensimon, Estela Mara, author 190087, Malcom-Piqueux, Lindsey E., 1980-, author 632615, Association of American Colleges and Universities

“…This is one strategy for promotion along with the email blasts to AAC&U's network of 65,000 educators and ads in their personal periodicals (Diversity & Democracy, Peer Review, and Liberal Education)".…”

Konsistensi Ideologi Pendidikan Agama Islam Di Tengah Perubahan Kurikulum Pendidikan Di Indonesia by Muhammad Zamroji

“…This is different from the ideology of liberal education which prioritizes individual freedom to develop educational concepts. …”
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Research Universities: American Exceptionalism? by Henry Rosovsky

“…At the top of the higher education pyramid in the United States we find the public and private research universities with their special role of creating and maintaining knowledge, training graduate students in arts and sciences and professional schools, and offering a liberal education to undergraduates. There are about 125 diverse universities that fit this description. …”
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Addressing refugees and non-refugees in adult education programs: A longitudinal analysis on shifting public concerns by Bernd Käpplinger

“…German adult education centres have partly turned into language schools for refugees and migrants. Civic or liberal education courses have lost importance. Refugees and migrants are addressed more than in the past when mainly non-refugees were informed about the reasons why people become refugees. …”
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Optimal Harvesting for an Age-Spatial-Structured Population Dynamic Model with External Mortality by Yong Han Kang, Mi Jin Lee, Il Hyo Jung

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The Registration of Ginling College and the Role of Wu Yi-fang, 1925–1930 by Maria Chen

“…This paper argues that Wu’s contributions to Ginling’s registration demonstrate how Christian schools and liberal education played a significant role in nurturing the development of Chinese female leaders and preparing them for leadership roles. …”
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Service Learning and LEAP: Increasing Respect for Diversity through Campus-Community Collaboration in Advanced Spanish Courses by Jodie Parys

“…It will then demonstrate how service learning, as a recognized high-impact practice helps students achieve several specified outcomes of the Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative related to diversity and global perspectives. …”
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"Perhaps I'm Not a Global Citizen but a Global Listener Now": The Ethics of Study Abroad in Buddhist Spaces by Amy Paris Langenberg

“… The study of global Buddhism through a study abroad encounter presents invaluable opportunities for teachers and students at liberal arts institutions to contemplate the conundrum of global citizenship, a standard aim of liberal education in North America. When studying abroad, students become viscerally aware of their own positionality, which is reflected back to them constantly as they move through the social and cultural landscapes of Buddhist Asia. …”
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Teaching and Learning in Community: Staff-Student Learning Partnerships As Part of a College Education by Alice Lesnick

“…In focusing this argument on the educational benefits of such experiences to students, I explore the connections to liberal education. I also argue that intra-campus community engagement enhances students’ understandings and capacities to challenge limiting hierarchies and divisions. …”
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The elephant in the room: constraints and consequences of a four-year undergraduate engineering degree by Silbey, Susan S.

“…This attracts students seeking training for occupation more than education, encourages heavy non-discretionary course requirements, and relegates engineering to lower status that other professions requiring training following an undergraduate liberal education. This focus on instrumental reasoning further isolates engineering from other more self-reflexive professions.…”
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A qualitative investigation of parental aspirations to international education in China by Wei, Y

“…Shuangjian and other recently enacted educational policies point to a trend in decentralization of English language and discouragement of mass liberal education in the Chinese context. While covid does not bring about a decrease in number of Chinese students studying in western countries in these two years, there is pervasive concerns surrounding health, safety, and discrimination that cloud student and parents’ decision-making. …”

Gender perpectives in higher education by Karim, Wazir Jahan

“…This chain of human development thrives against a background of democracy and the promotion of an open liberal education system which encourages creativity and constructive criticism. …”
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A comparison of teacher induction systems in Türkiye, China, New Zealand, and Germany by Tuğba Baran Kaya, Adnan Baki

“…Türkiye has weekly seminars on liberal education topics, while the other three countries have mostly branch-specific seminars. …”
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Education and General Education in China by Haishao Pang, Meiling Cheng, Jing Yu, Jingjing Wu

“…Particularly since 1995, culture-oriented quality education as an anchor and starting point of suzhi education implementation in universities, which integrates with general education and liberal education from Western concepts, triggered great changes in Chinese universities. …”
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Interdisciplinary integration across the curriculum by Syed Alwi, Shahab

“…When they consider employment prospects, both students and parents question the choice of a liberal education as impressions persist that in today's and tomorrow's marketplace, the skills and competencies of humanities graduates appear to be obsolete. …”
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