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The liberal arts paradox in higher education : negotiating inclusion and prestige / Kathryn Telling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Telling, Kathryn, author.
- Series:
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Humanistic--Great Britain--History--21st century.
- Education, Humanistic.
- Educational sociology--Great Britain--History--21st century.
- Educational sociology.
- Education, Higher--Great Britain--History--21st century.
- Education, Higher.
- Educational equalization--Great Britain--History--21st century.
- Educational equalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 161 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Why the liberal arts?
- Methodological reflections: idealism, cynicism and a hierarchy of ambivalence
- Staying with the knot, or taking plurality seriously
- Plurality and the liberal arts
- Conclusion: for unhappy hairdressers
- 1 Trailblazing traditionalists: imagining the liberal arts in time
- Something old, something new: the knot of prestige and innovation
- The direction of travel: following, leading and the logic of the liberal arts
- The pace of change, or the other direction of travel
- Conclusion
- 2 Discipline and its discontents: multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinarity?
- The problem with disciplines: contingency and falsehood
- The Build-a-Bear degree? Tensions of choice and progression
- How England is not like the US: a partial list
- The application of what? Problems with problem-based learning
- 3 Distinctly indistinct: generic skills and the unique student
- Knowledge, skills and competences
- Against expertise? Students on specialisation
- A course for individuals: on being different
- Stand out: selling yourself on the job market
- 4 Jobs for the generalist: non-vocational degrees and employability
- Getting ready for the real world
- What's in a name? Explaining the liberal arts
- The unknown future of work
- Strategies to manage the unknown: anxiety, forbearance and control
- 5 Identity and the 'ideal' student: citizens, cosmopolitans, consumers?
- Good citizens: liberal arts as social justice
- Cosmopolitans and parochials: the limits of open-mindedness
- The knot of consumerism: choice, freedom and opportunity
- 6 Meritocracy and mass higher education: character, ease and educational intimacy
- The character of the liberal arts
- Testing for character: entangling the domestic with the civic
- Educational intimacy: the liberal arts and the question of scale
- Character, closeness and the question of fairness
- The knot of meritocracy: intelligence plus effort, still
- Plural values and the liberal arts knot
- Entering a dispute: plurality in the interview
- The tyranny of the educated
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jan 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781447359500
- 144735950X
- 9781447359487
- 1447359488
- 9781447359494
- 1447359496
- OCLC:
- 1377691287
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