Open AccessA Notion at Risk: Interrogating the Educational Role of Off-Campus Study in the Liberal Arts
Author(s) -
Andrew Law,
Susan Mennicke
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
frontiers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2380-8144
pISSN - 1085-4568
DOI - 10.36366/frontiers.v15i1.220
Subject(s) - embeddedness , liberal arts education , argument (complex analysis) , the arts , sociology , politics , reflection (computer programming) , epistemology , pedagogy , social science , political science , higher education , law , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , computer science , programming language
This article presents an argument that educators should challenge students to develop as individuals who can understand their own limitations, their own particular socio-political, economic, historical and cultural embeddedness, and who have tools of critical reflection to make moral/ethical judgments and choices that are the imperatives of a liberal arts education.