1st Edition
Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum Perspectives of Developing and Transitional Countries
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 A Global Framework: Liberal Education in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Patti McGill Peterson
Chapter 2 China: General Education Grounded in Tradition in a Rapidly Changing Society, Kathryn Mohrman, Jinghuan Shi, and Manli Li
Chapter 3 India: Structural Roadblocks to Academic Reform, Pawan Agarwal and Rajashree Srinivasan
Chapter 4 Mexico: Higher Education, the Liberal Arts, and Prospects for Curricular Change, Wietse de Vries and José Francisco Romero
Chapter 5 Pakistan: Liberal Education in Context, Policy, and Practice, Zulfiqar H. Guiliani
Chapter 6 Poland: The Place of Liberal Education in Post-Soviet Higher Education, Ewa Kowalski
Chapter 7 Russia: Against the Tide, Liberal Arts Establishes a Foothold in Post-Soviet Russia, Jonathan Becker, Andrei Kortunov, and Philip Fedchin
Chapter 8 South Africa: Reimagining Liberal Learning in a Post-Apartheid Curriculum, Michael Cross and Fatima Adam
Chapter 9 Turkey: Obstacles to and Examples of Curriculum Reform, Kemal Gürüz
Chapter 10 Comparative Observations: Problems and Prospects, Patti McGill Peterson
List of Contributors
Index
Biography
Patti McGill Peterson is Presidential Adviser for Global Initiatives at the American Council on Education.
