On the Horizon: Volume 22 Issue 1

Liberal education may be dead but the magic will not die!

The purpose of this paper is to challenge the assumption that liberal education as we understand it today, is alive and well in our institutions of higher education.…

Contemporary liberal education: slowing down to discern

This essay seeks to argue that contemporary liberal arts education can be viewed from the perspective of contemporary psychological understandings of human cognition combined with…

Why is liberal education so incoherent? An anthropological perspective

– This paper's purpose is to account for liberal education's characteristic incoherence.

Liberal arts in a new era

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness and outcomes of liberal arts in preparing people for adult roles.

The meaning of liberal education

The purpose of this essay is to comment on the philosophy of liberal education and its structure; the goal of general education and how it fulfills the goals of liberal education;…

How can our human world exist and best flourish embedded in the physical universe? An outline of a problem-based liberal-studies course

In this paper the author aims to sketch a liberal-studies course designed to explore our fundamental problem of thought and life: How can our human world exist and best flourish…

Integration and the liberal arts: a historical overview

The traditional liberal-arts curriculum of the word-based Trivium (grammar, dialectic/logic, rhetoric) and the number-based Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music) has…

The reaction against conventional knowledge in higher education

– Liberal education should consist of a healthy dynamic of mastering and transcending received traditions. This paper aims to discuss this point.

Is there a case for a “liberal education”?

Since the creation of the trivium and quadrivium as the core for a post- secondary education, education itself has undergone substantive change, particularly since the end of the…

The reflective practitioner: the role of a public liberal-arts university in saving liberal education

– This paper seeks to discuss the role of a public liberal-arts university in education.

Men grow old

This sermon argues that artistry and understanding are the offspring of whole people: thoughtful, resolute, and passionate. It then considers some illiberal fashions in higher…

Liberal education in crisis? Comment by Anderson

Liberal education in crisis? Comment by Pollard

Liberal education in crisis? Comment by Conrad

Liberal education in crisis? Rejoinder by Graber

Liberal education in crisis? Rejoinder by Maxwell

Errata

Liberal education in crisis? Comment by Graber

Liberal education in crisis? Comment by Bussey

Liberal education in crisis? Comment by Scott

Liberal education in crisis? Rejoinder by Conrad

Liberal Education in Crisis? Rejoinder by Jennings

Liberal education in crisis? Rejoinder by Scott

Liberal education in crisis? Functions, forms, and foils: Editor’s introduction