The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education

Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige

Kathryn Telling (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

168 Seiten

2023
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-5947-0 (ISBN)

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By examining the emergence and growth of liberal arts degrees in English higher education, this book tackles one of the key issues in the critical sociology of higher education: the relationship between selective education and elitism.

The liberal arts approach to higher education is a growing trend globally. We are told that the mental dexterity and independent, questioning spirit cultivated by such interdisciplinary degrees are the best preparation for the as-yet unknown executive jobs of tomorrow.
This book explores the significant recent growth of these degrees in England in order to address an enduring problem for higher education: the relationship between meritocracy and elitism.
Against the view that the former is a myth providing rhetorical cover for the latter, it argues that these are two entangled, but discrete, value systems. Sociology must now pay attention to how students and academics attempt to disentangle them.

Kathryn Telling is Lecturer in Education at The University of Manchester.

Introduction
1. Trailblazing Traditionalists: Imagining the Liberal Arts in Time
2. Discipline and its Discontents: Multi, Inter or Transdisciplinarity?
3. Distinctly Indistinct: Generic Skills and the Unique Student
4. Jobs for the Generalist: Non-Vocational Degrees and Employability
5. Identity and the ‘Ideal’ Student: Citizens, Cosmopolitans, Consumers?
6. Meritocracy and Mass Higher Education: Character, Ease and Educational Intimacy
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	02.05.2023
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-5947-X / 144735947X
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-5947-0 / 9781447359470
Zustand	Neuware