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  • 标题:Against All Odds? The Enduring Value of Liberal Education in Universities, Professions, and the Labour Market
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  • 作者:Paul Axelrod ; Paul Anisef ; Zeng Lin
  • 期刊名称:Canadian Journal of Higher Education
  • 印刷版ISSN:0316-1218
  • 出版年度:2001
  • 卷号:31
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:47-77
  • 出版社:Canadian Journal of Higher Education
  • 摘要:The humanities, the social sciences and the fine arts — the core sub- jects of liberal education — are at risk in Canadian universities, and the danger arises largely from the forced reorientation of higher education to assumed market needs. This paper attempts to explain why such policy shifts are occurring; it points to the continuing cultural, social and intel- lectual value of liberal education; and, drawing from recent and previ- ously unreported census data, it demonstrates that liberal education produces generally positive economic benefits to the individual graduate. It concludes that policies designed to diminish the presence of lib- eral education in universities in favour of more supposedly
  • 其他摘要:The humanities, the social sciences and the fine arts — the core sub- jects of liberal education — are at risk in Canadian universities, and the danger arises largely from the forced reorientation of higher education to assumed market needs. This paper attempts to explain why such policy shifts are occurring; it points to the continuing cultural, social and intel- lectual value of liberal education; and, drawing from recent and previ- ously unreported census data, it demonstrates that liberal education produces generally positive economic benefits to the individual graduate. It concludes that policies designed to diminish the presence of lib- eral education in universities in favour of more supposedly "market-worthy" subjects are short-sighted and threatening to the integrity and vitality of higher education.
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