Why Liberal Arts? - The Grace Core - Faculty Resources - Research Guides at Grace College & Seminary

Articles - 2017-2018

Fujimura, Makoto. (2017, April 29) "The Art of Education," (2017, April 29),
"The goal of liberal arts education, or any type of education, is to grow our imagination to know love. To love is to hope for a rejuvenated earth and to hope for the discovery of a place that we long to be."

Recent Trends- 2016

Hart Research Associates. Recent Trends in General Education Design, Learning Outcomes, and Teaching Approaches: Key Findings from a Survey among Adminstrators at AAC&U Member Institutions. 19 Jan. 2016.
This report summarizes key findings from a national survey among chief academic officers at AAC&U member institutions and explores how institutions are defining common learning outcomes, trends related to general education design and the use of emerging, evidence-based teaching and learning practices. This is the second report in a series featuring findings from the survey conducted by Hart Research Associates for AAC&U.

Rhetoric Article - Core Cafe October 2015

Hauser, George A. “Teaching Rhetoric: Or Why Rhetoric Isn’t Just Another Kind of Philosophy or L
“What makes rhetoric rhetoric is its teaching tradition.” . . That role is not just in the public performance of political discourse but in the education of young minds that prepares them to perform their citizenship.

New Articles - 10/26/15

McWilliams, S. (2013). The Liberal Arts and the Arts of Liberty. Perspectives On Political Science, 42(4), 217-221. doi:10.1080/10457097.2013.829343
"Those of us who know the immeasurable and irreplaceable value of liberal education need to give a better account. To do this, we might begin by looking back to the question of what kind of education is needed to preserve and support human liberty."

Books

College: what it was, is, and should be by Andrew Delbanco
Call Number: LA227.4 .D455 2012
ISBN: 9780691130736
Publication Date: 2012-03-20
You Can Do Anything by George Anders
Call Number: HF5382.5.U5 A7185 2017
ISBN: 9780316548809
Publication Date: 2017-08-08
Why Choose the Liberal Arts? by Mark Roche; Mark William Roche
Call Number: LC1011 .R63 2010
ISBN: 9780268040321
Publication Date: 2010
Digital_Humanities by Peter Lunenfeld; Anne Burdick; Johanna Drucker; Todd Presner; Jeffrey Schnapp
ISBN: 9780262018470
Publication Date: 2012
Liberal Arts at the Brink by Victor E. Ferrall
Call Number: LC1011 .F47 2011
ISBN: 9780674060883
Publication Date: 2011

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter - Executive Summary, A summary of a 92-page report on the humanities and social sciences from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. It urges a renewed emphasis on the humanities and social sciences to meet the need for future leaders in our nation.

The Heart of the Matter - Full Report, producted by the American Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, is intended to advance a dialogue on the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the future of our nation.

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