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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Telling, Kathryn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Education, Higher.
Education, Humanistic.
Educational equalization.
Educational sociology.
Education, Humanistic > Great Britain > History > 21st century.
Educational sociology > Great Britain > History > 21st century.
Education, Higher > Great Britain > History > 21st century.
Educational equalization > Great Britain > History > 21st century.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Entering a dispute: plurality in the interview
  • The tyranny of the educated
  • References
  • Index

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