scholarly journals The Role of Philanthropic Studies in Equipping Students to Articulate their Personal and Vocational Purpose

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Nathan ◽  
Genevieve Shaker ◽  
Pat Danahey Janin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Career Interests ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Philanthropic Studies ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Programmatic Factors

Positioned within the larger discussion regarding the outcomes of a liberal arts education, this qualitative study examined Philanthropic Studies undergraduates’ articulation of purpose. Fifteen majors participated in this grounded theory study, providing insight into the student experience in this new, liberal arts discipline. Findings are expressed in a theoretical framework showing how most students’ articulation of purpose successfully evolved to include and integrate personal and vocational aims. Most of the Philanthropic Studies students held a strong, values-based orientation that underscored their experiences and perspective but was not enough to assure a confident vocational purpose on its own. The framework aligns and complements theories of student development and illuminates a number of personal and programmatic factors that facilitated or hampered the students’ progression. The study suggests that liberal arts-based curricula can do well with a holistic approach that attends closely not just to students’ academic achievements but also to their sense of personal purpose, career interests and vocational concerns, while using experiential learning strategies in generous measure.

The Erosion of Humanitas

Worldview ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Clyde A. Holbrook
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Ideal

The role of higher education is crucial in a world that seems torn apart by cultural, economic, political and social differences, and yet is, at the same time, ever more closely drawn together by technology, travel, social and economic needs. Higher education offers no panacea for the disunity of this complex and confusing world. It should, however, contribute to a kind of understanding that spans the differences among the people of the world, or at least those within one country. In this connection liberal arts education is today in jeopardy, unsure of its competence to serve the ideal of humanitas that at one time was conceded to be both the stable ground and the ever elusive goal of higher education.

scholarly journals Japanese Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
Aki Yamada
Keyword(s):  
Stem Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Japanese Higher Education ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Vertical Division ◽  
And Mathematics

In today’s information-driven society, the Japanese government envisions the next societal revolution as “Society 5.0,” where advanced technologies and service platforms integrate with and empower individuals in a human-based society. While Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education has traditionally focused on technical skills and knowledge in isolation, this paper will look at the potential role and benefits of incorporating liberal arts education into these technical studies. This concept of integrating the liberal arts into STEM education is known as STEAM. The purpose of the study is to create a foundation for clarifying the role of interdisciplinary education in overcoming the vertical division of academic disciplines and restoring the “integrated nature” of scholarship. This study seeks to show how the humanities, social sciences, and arts can be used to enhance STEM education, and, furthermore, how this STEAM approach to education is key to enabling Japan’s vision for Society 5.0.

scholarly journals A Notion at Risk: Interrogating the Educational Role of Off-Campus Study in the Liberal Arts

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Law ◽  
Susan Mennicke
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Ethical Judgments ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Cultural Embeddedness

This article presents an argument that educators should challenge students to develop as individuals who can understand their own limitations, their own particular socio-political, economic, historical and cultural embeddedness, and who have tools of critical reflection to make moral/ethical judgments and choices that are the imperatives of a liberal arts education.

Spiritual and Religious Culture in Modern Education Context

10.12737/628 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Шафажинская ◽  
Natalya Shafazhinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Pedagogical Competence

Justification related to integration of expanded spiritually and religious component in the system of higher school’s culturological and theological formation is given in this paper. This approach’s relevance is determined by need of carrying out a program related to the studying of bases of religious culture and spiritual ethics as necessary component of pupils’ encyclical liberal arts education, increase of cultural, philosophy and psychological-pedagogical competence of future teachers of humanitarian disciplines, and also optimization related to moral education of modern youth as a whole. As the chosen position argumentation the author offers the factual material promoting the best understanding of importance and more objective assessment related to a role of spiritual and theological component in educational process.

scholarly journals Letter From The Editor

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Heather Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Everyday Realities ◽  
Middle East Studies

Once again, this issue of the Review circulates as turbulent events continue to displace and fracture the history, culture, and everyday realities that define the MENA region and diasporic lives. As MESA members seek ways to interrogate and intervene in these chaotic moments through academic and pedagogical practice, our hope is that the RoMES mission to bridge divides between fields, publics, and geographies in Middle East studies will provide potential pathways forward. We also face ongoing public debate concerning the role of academics and of liberal arts education during a time when conscientious, critical scholarship and curricula are often labeled as partisan projects. It is thus incumbent on all of us to reassess the roles we play in the various fora that define our lives: classrooms, conferences, public media outlets, scholarly publications, editorial and institutional boards, think tanks, and beyond. In this issue we introduce three new sections of the Review intentionally created to capture some of these varied roles and thus to offer RoMES as a space for interrogation and reflection.

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