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Integrated general education: A brief look back
Author(s) -
Wehlburg Catherine M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.383
Subject(s) - general education , curriculum , education theory , tracing , mathematics education , engineering ethics , sociology , pedagogy , higher education , computer science , political science , psychology , engineering , law , operating system
By tracing the historical roots of general education, we can make many of our current issues and problems in general education more understandable. This chapter is an overview of historical trends that have taken general education from the concept of a unified curriculum with no distinction between “specialized” and “general” education to the current distribution requirement that many institutions use.