Sentences with phrase «curriculum of liberal education»

Each domain of inquiry within the curriculum of liberal education has its own characteristic features with respect to the practice of freedom.

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As to curriculum, Dupré points out that many Catholic schools have reduced the ideal of a Catholic liberal education to «a few courses on religion, ethics, and a smattering of philosophy in an otherwise wholly pragmatically oriented curriculum.»

As Freeman Butts observed: ``... where the conception of a liberal education was firmly grounded upon religious and intellectual authority and discipline, the prescribed curriculum was more likely to be maintained longer against the inroads of the elective system with its attendant doctrines of freedom and flexibility.»

To assert that modern education should be infused with the ideals of recreation is to affirm the centrality of liberal studies in the curriculum.

He is editor - elect of Religious Education, editor of Philosophy of Education 1992, and the author of numerous articles, including «Science and Spirituality: Tradition and Interpretation in Liberal Education,» which will appear in Curriculum Inquiry.

In her years of teaching she developed a concept of education that she expressed as «liberal education for all,» by which she meant an education that was broad and deep enough curriculum to be suitable for all children.

The Education Committee reiterated what has been a long - standing concern of the country's liberal community: revising the curriculum of state school textbooks on Pakistan Studies, which glorify Muslim warriors and portray India as «Hindu» and Hindu as «the other».

The effect is to dump existing Liberal Democrat policy which seeks integrated education — in other words all young people to have opportunities to do vocational and academic study as part of a single curriculum..

«Essentially, the students are reaping the benefits of a liberal arts education — small class size, general education curriculum, high contact with professors and a residential campus,» says Graham Miller, a second - year doctoral student and first author of the report.

«Essentially, the students are reaping the benefits of a liberal arts education — small class size, general education curriculum, high contact with professors and a residential campus,» says Graham Miller, a second - year graduate student in education and the report's first author.

April 21 — Art: The School of Visual Arts is inviting participants in its 1995 National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, to be held in New York City Oct. 18 - 21, to submit proposals for open sessions on the following topics: Whither the Arts — The Right, the Left, and the (Dead) Center; Art and Regionalism; Government Funding of the Arts: Pro and Con; Politics and Graphic Design; Politics and the Studio Curriculum; New Challenges to Multiculturalism; Public Television: Yes or No?

But Ravitch's book reveals that as necessary as these changes may be, revitalizing our schools ultimately depends more on restoring liberal education to its rightful place at the center of the American curriculum and breaking the grip of harmful progressive ideas (particularly the progressive antipathy to subject matter) on educational policy and practice.

For every person who believes that the high school's mission is to supply all students with a solid liberal arts education, someone else is convinced that young people's differing tastes and aspirations should preclude uniformity of academic standards and curriculum.

In fact, similarities between the two parties are so strong that current Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham is now spruiking national teaching standards and curriculum as core bones of Liberal policy: two reform areas developed under federal Labor.

A comprehensive, multidisciplinary curriculum with a foundation of liberal arts courses to support professional education courses, meet licensure requirements, and provide authentic field experiences.

In pursuit of these virtues, our Special Education teams develop a program for each eligible student that maximizes access to the liberal arts curriculum through small - group or one - on - one instruction, both inside and outside of the regular classroom during the school day.

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The Cooper Union is committed to the principle that an education in the liberal arts provides the ethical, social and humanistic framework crucial to personal development and professional excellence; thus, all students in the first two years take a core curriculum of required courses in the humanities and social sciences.

Merritt sees these challenges as potential opportunities to restructure legal education, proposing a first year of legal study into an undergraduate liberal arts major, and retaining a two - year upper - level curriculum.