Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1496833171 ISBN 13 : 9781496833174

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2021

Synopsis

Contributions by William D. Adams, Sarah Archino, Mario J. Azevedo, Katrina Byrd, Rico D. Chapman, Helen O. Chukwuma, Monica Flippin Wynn, 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, Laura Ashlee Messina, Byron D'Andra Orey, Kathy Root Pitts, Candis Pizzetta, Lawrence Sledge, RaShell R. Smith-Spears, Joseph Martin Stevenson, Seretha D. Williams, and Karen C. Wilson-Stevenson

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 society, redefining the liberal arts in a manner that may be key to the American republic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert E. Luckett Jr. is associate professor of history and director of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University. He is author of Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma: Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement, published by University Press of Mississippi. His research has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Mississippi History, Fire!!! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies, the Public Historian, and the Journal of Ethnic American Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496833171
• ISBN 13: 9781496833174
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Éditeur: Luckett Jr. Robert E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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