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"Contributions by Sarah Archino, Mario J. Azevedo, Katrina Byrd, Rico D. Chapman, Helen O. Chukwuma, Tatiana Glushko, Eric J. Griffin, Kathi R. Griffin, Yumi Park Huntington, Thomas M. Kersen, Robert E. Luckett Jr., Floyd W. Martin, Preselfannie W. McDaniels, Dawn Bishop McLin, Byron D'And...
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| Publisher Address: | Jackson, Mississippi : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Contributions by Sarah Archino, Mario J. Azevedo, Katrina Byrd, Rico D. Chapman, Helen O. Chukwuma, Tatiana Glushko, Eric J. Griffin, Kathi R. Griffin, Yumi Park Huntington, Thomas M. Kersen, Robert E. Luckett Jr., Floyd W. Martin, Preselfannie W. McDaniels, Dawn Bishop McLin, Byron D'Andra Orey, Kathy Root Pitts, Candis Pizzetta, Lawrence Sledge, Lauren Ashlee Messina, RaShell R. Smith-Spears, Joseph Martin Stevenson, Seretha D. Williams, Karen C. Wilson-Stevenson, and Monica Flippin Wynn Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century delves into the essential nature of the liberal arts in America today. During a time when the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and math dominate the narrative around the future of higher education, the liberal arts remain vital but frequently dismissed academic pursuits. While STEAM has emerged as a popular acronym, the arts get added to the discussion in a way that is often rhetorical at best. Written by scholars from a diversity of fields and institutions, the essays in this collection legitimize the liberal arts and offer visions for the role of these disciplines in the modern world. From the arts, pedagogy, and writing to social justice, the digital humanities, and the African American experience, the essays that comprise Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century bring attention to the vast array of ways in which the liberal arts continue to be fundamental parts of any education. In an increasingly transactional environment, in which students believe a degree must lead to a specific job and set income, colleges and universities should take heed of the advice from these scholars. The liberal arts do not lend themselves to the capacity to do a single job, but to do any job. The effective teaching of critical and analytical thinking, writing, and speaking creates educated citizens. In a divisive twenty-first-century world, such a citizenry holds the tools to maintain a free societ |
| Item Description: | "Foreword by William D. Adams"--from cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781496833167 1496833163 9781496833174 1496833171 |
| Index Number: | LC1023 |
| CLC: | G649.712 |
| Call Number: | G649.712/R314 |
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Foreword: A robust liberal arts education: opportunities and concerns in the twenty-first century / Introduction: collaboration and iInterdisciplinarity in the knowledge economy / Chapter 1. Digital humanities as a LEAP high-impact practice / Chapter 2. Technology in the liberal arts classroom: updating the classroom toolkit / Chapter 3. Teaching art history to STEM / Chapter 4. An interdisciplinary approach to cultivating visual literacy / Chapter 5. Revisiting Erwin Panofsky's "The history of art as a humanistic discipline" / Chapter 7. Test-oriented pedagogy in the teaching of communication skills / Chapter 8. Flexible thought for the test-focused student / Chapter 9. Developing a more student-sensitive approach in the liberal arts / Chapter 11. Translingualism, transhistoricism, and Shakespeare in a freshman seminar / Chapter 12. The liberal arts faculty writing boot camp / Chapter 13. You can't say that: warnings, political correctness, and academic freedom / Chapter 14. Not all apples are red / Chapter 15. Liberal arts and humanities as "molders of consensus" in the public arena / Chapter 16. Historical memory and the Meredith monument at Ole Miss / Chapter 17. [Re]Engineering a new liberal arts experience: future studies and HBCUs / |