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The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education : Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige /
By examining the emergence and growth of liberal arts degrees in English higher education, this book tackles one of the key issues in the critical sociology of higher education: the relationship between selective education and elitism.
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2023.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Why the liberal arts? -- Methodological reflections: idealism, cynicism and a hierarchy of ambivalence -- Staying with the knot, or taking plurality seriously -- Plurality and the liberal arts -- Conclusion: for unhappy hairdressers -- 1 Trailblazing traditionalists: imagining the liberal arts in time -- Something old, something new: the knot of prestige and innovation | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The direction of travel: following, leading and the logic of the liberal arts -- The pace of change, or the other direction of travel -- Conclusion -- 2 Discipline and its discontents: multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinarity? -- The problem with disciplines: contingency and falsehood -- The Build-a-Bear degree? Tensions of choice and progression -- How England is not like the US: a partial list -- The application of what? Problems with problem-based learning -- Conclusion -- 3 Distinctly indistinct: generic skills and the unique student -- Knowledge, skills and competences | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Against expertise? Students on specialisation -- A course for individuals: on being different -- Stand out: selling yourself on the job market -- Conclusion -- 4 Jobs for the generalist: non-vocational degrees and employability -- Getting ready for the real world -- What's in a name? Explaining the liberal arts -- The unknown future of work -- Strategies to manage the unknown: anxiety, forbearance and control -- Conclusion -- 5 Identity and the 'ideal' student: citizens, cosmopolitans, consumers? -- Good citizens: liberal arts as social justice | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Cosmopolitans and parochials: the limits of open-mindedness -- The knot of consumerism: choice, freedom and opportunity -- Conclusion -- 6 Meritocracy and mass higher education: character, ease and educational intimacy -- The character of the liberal arts -- Testing for character: entangling the domestic with the civic -- Educational intimacy: the liberal arts and the question of scale -- Character, closeness and the question of fairness -- The knot of meritocracy: intelligence plus effort, still -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Plural values and the liberal arts knot | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Entering a dispute: plurality in the interview -- The tyranny of the educated -- References -- Index | |
| 520 | |a By examining the emergence and growth of liberal arts degrees in English higher education, this book tackles one of the key issues in the critical sociology of higher education: the relationship between selective education and elitism. | ||
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