The Effects of Liberal Arts Experiences on Liberal Arts Outcomes

Despite scholars’ praise of liberal arts education as a model form, very little research has examined the actual impact of liberal arts education on learning outcomes. The elaborate rhetoric and anecdotal support, long used to advance liberal arts education as the premier type of education with value for all, is no longer sufficient. The practices and conditions that lead to outcomes of a liberally educated student remain an empirical black box. Guided by the work of Pascarella et al. [2005, Liberal arts colleges and liberal arts education: New evidence on impacts. ASHE Higher Education Report, 31(3)], this study examined the extent to which an institutional ethos, that values student–student and student–faculty interaction within a supportive environment characterized by high expectations for developing the intellectual arts, manifests in the lived experiences of students and predicts the development of outcomes theoretically associated with the liberal arts. Specifically, we investigated the construct and predictive validity of the liberal arts experience scale relative to liberal arts outcomes. Using data from the first phase of the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education, net of student background characteristics and institution attended, we found liberal arts experiences had a positive effect on four of six liberal arts outcomes, including intercultural effectiveness, inclination to inquire and lifelong learning, well-being, and leadership.

文理艺大综合构成要义及实施

教育部十五规划课题全国教育科学十五规划项目“文理艺多学科交叉综合课程设置和审美化教学操作研究”提出的将科学逻辑、审美动力、实践活动相结合的综合课程设计模式是综合课程与教学的一种新的思路。     

人文科学方法论

在现代人文科学研究的范式中,非常强调以不同学科的手段,以各种材料去证明和对对象的言说。传统的研究大都以文字为依据,形成了“书写文化”的话语表述。今天在反思原则之下,研究者一方面反叛“书写权力”,另一方面以各种不同的证据“说话”,形成了方法论的转型,而这一学理轨迹有必要在大学教育中传达和传授。     

The Future of the Liberal Arts

For the past year, we have been co-facilitating Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) workshops across Pittsburgh, tailored specifically toward local educators and educational activists. The overarching intentions of these workshops were twofold: (a) to cultivate educators’ understanding of and response to how power and privilege operate in educational systems; and (b) to provide useful tools for educators to continue these conversations and dismantle systems of oppression in their places of practice. As a collective of facilitators and in our workshops, we attempt to create, even if briefly, a beloved community where participants are invited to bring their full, human selves and engage in nuanced reflection in the hopes of creating a more compassionate, just, and equitable society. Like our workshops, the purpose of this article is both practical and theoretical: (a) to provide tangible tools to those readers interested in facilitating TO workshops for educators; and (b) to contribute to our understanding of how TO can serve to cultivate educators’ analysis of oppression.     

大文科背景下的文科能力过程复合化应用人才培养

随着我国经济社会建设的步伐以及现代科技、文化教育的快速发展,传统的中文专业人才培养体系明显地显露出鲜明特色的缺失和实用性的不足。本文结合绵阳师范学院文学与对外汉语学院构建"大文科"体系,积极探索新时期中文专业人才培养的新模式,实践全能过程化复合化应用人才培养的人才培养模式,通过"学生能力培养过程化"、"培养人才过程复合化"、"人才培养目标复合应用化"的培养工作思路,找到了人才培养改革的方向、实现了学科资源的整合、提高了人才培养的质量、适应了经济社会的发展。     

作为“位育”的通识教育:潘光旦的本土化视角

本文从通识教育本土化的问题出发,梳理了潘光旦在20世纪上半叶关于中国大学教育的反思以及作为这种反思的结果,即在中国展开通识教育的思想。潘光旦关于通识教育的目的、功能和方法等方面的主张,服从于其“中和位育”的核心社会学理论,对今天在中国大陆展开的通识教育实践活动依然具有有益的理论意义和参考价值。     

文科实验室面临的机遇与挑战

文科实验室是时代的产物.长期以来人们对文科实验室建设的重要性认识不足,致使文科实验室的发展面临巨大困难.要使文科实验室沿着正确的道路健康发展,必须彻底抛弃文科不需要实验室的旧观念,正确认识文理科实验的差别,承认文科实验具有不同于理科实验的特殊性,以科学的管理方式管理、扶持文科实验室建设.     

浅谈文科实验室建设

阐述了文科实验室建设的重要性,对该校文科实验室建设中所取得的经验进行了总结,提出了今后工作中需要解决的几个问题。     

试论综合文科教育的基本特征

综合科教育是一种在科领域为探索复合型人才培养模式的教育实验。本认为，这一实验应始终以全面提高学生的人素质为目的，充分体现现代教育的主体性、开放性和超前性，具有鲜明的时代特征。     

Humanitas,Metaphysics and Modern Liberal Arts

There is a new myth of the heterogeneous that is reducing the concept of humanity to a sinful enlightenment. In this article I investigate the contribution that a renewed understanding of liberal arts education might offer for the idea of a humanist education and for the concept of humanity; and this at a time when not only the concept of humanity per se, and of a humanist education in particular are suspected of Western imperialism and rational logocentrism, but also, in England at least, when the tuition fees of humanities students have trebled. I argue that within a concept of modern metaphysics first principles are re-formed to have their universality in instability and struggle. This instability and struggle is the modern culture of rational education, and speaks of a non-abstract comprehension of two of modernity’s most contested terms: freedom and humanity.     

高职高专文科类实训研究

实训是实现职业教育目标的重要条件。本文阐述了高职高专文科类实训现状及原因,从基地建设、课程模式、师资队伍、项目设计等方面结合我院商务英语专业的实训探索对加强高职高专文科类实训进行了讨论。     

本科院校文科实验室建设现状及对策探析

随着信息时代的到来和高等教育改革的不断深入,文科实验室建设成为高等院校建设的又一重大课题。本文针对文科实验室建设中出现的问题,从文科实验室项目的系统规划、政策倾斜、强化管理、资金筹集和队伍建设等方面提出了相应的措施以期达到文科实验室建设的规范化、科学化、现代化。     

文科综合大答题的基本特点

史、地、政三科综合能力测试的第Ⅱ卷,统称非选择题,即大答题,它分为单科综合题与跨科综合题,基本上属于主观型试题。其命题指导思想和考查方向,大致上可以由本文所述的几个基本特点来体现。这些基本特点在几套文综试题(全国卷)中都不难找到,故本文尽少举证,而是重在对事实的提炼与概括,即“点破窗户纸”。三个最———非选择题的容量最大,综合性最强,含纳的题型最多。卷内用过的题型有:填空题型、选择题型、简答题型、评价题型、比较题型、辨析题型、论述题型、材料解析题型等(据《考试说明》题型示例和样卷)。每一道非选择题都有其中的两…     

论文科大学生的科学素质教育

本对科学素质教育的内涵进行了界定,指出它是由科学知识、科学方法、科学能力、科学精神等组成的有机整体,在此基础上进一步阐述了当前对科大学生进行科学素质教育的意义和重要的任务,最后,从加强宏观管理、课程设置、实行主辅修制、举办科学知识讲座和建立科学教育基地等方面提出科大学生科学素质教育的实施意见。     

科学与人文融合理念下的大学数学课程观

文章指出大学数学教育不仅具有科学的内涵而且还具有丰富的人文价值。随着我高等教育大众化时代的到来,科学与人文融合的理念对大学数学课程观的影响逐渐凸现。科学与人文融合的理念对其课程观的改变。主要包括数学课程的价值观、目标观、内容观以及数学课程实施观和评价观等方面。