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Direct linkMiller-Lane, Jonathan – Liberal Education, 2012
The author believes there are three conceptual and somatic (from the Greek, meaning "of the body") changes that could be made in order to better educate the student body and, thereby, help sustain the intellectual and social relevance of the liberal arts as a program of study. First, the commitment to what Sir Ken Robinson has called "the…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Liberal Arts, Physical Activities, Art Education
McNeill, William H. – Liberal Education, 2011
In this article, the author shares his experiences in his undergraduate years and how he was influenced by his professors regarding human history. The author believes that social change very often arose from encounters with strangers who possessed some obviously superior skill or knowledge that locals could borrow and adjust to their own use. His…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Archaeology, Social Change, Social History
Download full textCamfield, Eileen Kogl – Liberal Education, 2009
In this article, the author suggests that college educators need to do more than tell students how to expand upon their careerist reasons for going to college; they also need to help them "feel" the value of that expansion. The author recognizes that this is part of the motivation for proposed structural changes to undergraduate education, such as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Intellectual Development, Child Development, Emotional Development
Marcy, Mary B. – Liberal Education, 2010
As the leader of the nation's only campus dedicated exclusively to early college, the author heads an institution that ensures students graduate sooner than the national average. As an academic who pursued her graduate work at Oxford University--an institution that confers most of its undergraduate degrees in three years--the author has had direct…
Descriptors: Colleges, Educational Objectives, Liberal Arts, Social Development
De Stasio, Elizabeth A.; Ansfield, Matthew; Cohen, Paul; Spurgin, Timothy – Liberal Education, 2009
Most American students enter college at a time when they are still forging their identities and seeking a place in the world. Yet many or most of today's students are increasingly dependent on their parents and stay more firmly connected to previous support networks via the "electronic tether" than did their predecessors. In this article, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Support Groups, Intellectual Development, Individualized Instruction
Knefelkamp, Lee – Liberal Education, 2006
This paper presents a class activity which aims to help students prepare both for the intellectual and the interpersonal work. On the first day of class, students are asked to read and reflect upon "Listening to Understand." Subsequently, they are then asked to discuss their responses in a small group and then later on in a large group discussion,…
Descriptors: Listening, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Intellectual Development
