The reflective practitioner: the role of a public liberal-arts university in saving liberal education
Abstract
Purpose
This paper seeks to discuss the role of a public liberal-arts university in education.
Design/methodology/approach
The author first defines the principles and definitions of liberal education, then analyses these ideas in relation to public liberal-arts universities.
Findings
Liberal education holds enduring value in a world where state support for higher education is steadily decreasing and the author concludes that society needs public liberal-arts universities in order to maintain freedom of thought and democracies.
Originality/value
This piece presents a view of public liberal-arts universities in the wider context of liberal education, recession and worldwide threats to democracy and personal freedoms.
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Citation
D. Paino, T. (2014), "The reflective practitioner: the role of a public liberal-arts university in saving liberal education", On the Horizon, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 72-74. https://doi.org/10.1108/OTH-10-2013-0040
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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