Contributions by Sarah Archino, Mario J. Azevedo, Katrina Byrd,
Rico D. Chapman, Helen O. Chukwuma, Tatiana Glushko, Eric J.
Griffin, Kathi R. Griffin, Yumi Park Huntington, Thomas M. Kersen,
Robert E. Luckett Jr., Floyd W. Martin, Preselfannie W. McDaniels,
Dawn McLin, Laura Ashlee Messina, Byron D'Andra Orey, Kathy Root
Pitts, Candis Pizzetta, Lawrence Sledge, RaShell R. Smith-Spears,
Joseph Martin Stevenson, Seretha D. Williams, and Karen C.
Wilson-Stevenson, and Monica Flippin Wynn Redefining Liberal Arts
Education in the Twenty-First Century delves into the essential
nature of the liberal arts in America today. During a time when the
STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and math dominate
the narrative around the future of higher education, the liberal
arts remain vital but frequently dismissed academic pursuits. While
STEAM has emerged as a popular acronym, the arts get added to the
discussion in a way that is often rhetorical at best. Written by
scholars from a diversity of fields and institutions, the essays in
this collection legitimize the liberal arts and offer visions for
the role of these disciplines in the modern world. From the arts,
pedagogy, and writing to social justice, the digital humanities,
and the African American experience, the essays that comprise
Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century bring
attention to the vast array of ways in which the liberal arts
continue to be fundamental parts of any education. In an
increasingly transactional environment, in which students believe a
degree must lead to a specific job and set income, colleges and
universities should take heed of the advice from these scholars.
The liberal arts do not lend themselves to the capacity to do a
single job, but to do any job. The effective teaching of critical
and analytical thinking, writing, and speaking creates educated
citizens. In a divisive twenty-first-century world, such a
citizenry holds the tools to maintain a free society, redefining
the liberal arts in a manner that may be key to the American
republic.
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