摘要
我们所广泛使用的“大学”的概念是从西方引入的,而人文教育理念在西方的高等教育历史中则占有非常重要的一席之地。本文介绍与分析了人文教育的理念、传统及其目前在美国大学的实践。在中国高等教育正在进行全面改革之时,了解这种以培养全面素养为手段,以帮助学生进行作为个体以及公民的自我实现为目的的教育哲学,可以为中国的高等教育改革提供新的思想与经验。
This paper begins with an overview of the history of liberal arts education and its principal philosophies. It then presents and examines a variety of educational programs provided at liberal arts colleges in the United States. By reviewing the philosophy and the practice of liberal arts education in the United States, this paper is aimed at applying some of the great concepts of liberal arts education and its successful practice to the ongoing systematic higher education reforms in China while taking the unique Chinese social and cultural circumstances into consideration.
出处
《比较教育研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2007年第3期44-49,共6页
International and Comparative Education
关键词
人文教育
批判精神
综合素养
跨学科教育
liberal arts education
critical thinking
development of scholarship
interdisciplinary education
