The Reinvention of Liberal Learning Around the Globe

Insung Jung is former Professor of the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo, Japan. Since its 1953 founding, ICU, a premier liberal arts college in Japan, has demonstrated solid growth and confidence in open and critical thinking, Christianity, and community service. Prof. Jung is uniquely qualified to edit this book as she has a long history of teaching and researching in a liberal arts college and collaborating with educators and researchers from all around the world and thus is able to take a global view of needs and trends in liberal arts education. She edited a book titled: Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia: Possibilities and Challenges in the Global Age with her colleagues (2016) and contributed to another book titled: Doing Liberal Arts Education: The Global Case Studies (2019). She works as Chief Editor of the SpringerBriefs series in Open and Distance Education. She is also Co-author and Co-editor of several other books published by Routledge, SagePublications, Information Age Publishing, Stylus, and Springer. She is currently serving as Leader of the Global Research Network for Liberal Arts Education (GRN), Advisor to the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction (ibstpi); and Editor, Editorial Board Member, and Reviewer of numerous international and domestic journals. She is currently working as a visiting research scholar at the Education Research Institute of the Seoul National University in Seoul, S. Korea. Ka Ho Mok is Vice President and concurrently Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of Lingnan University. He was Vice President (Research and Development) and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of The Education University of Hong Kong. Before joining the EdUHK, he was Associate Dean and Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, Professor Mok was appointed as Founding Chair Professor in EastAsian Studies and established the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He has worked creatively across the academic worlds of sociology, political science, and public and social policy while building up his wide knowledge of China and the region. He has published extensively in the fields of comparative education policy, comparative development and policy studies, and social development in contemporary China and East Asia. In particular, he has contributed to the field of social change and education policy in a variety of ways, not the least of which has been his leadership and entrepreneurial approach to the organization of the field. His recent published works have focused on comparative social development and social policy responses in the Greater China region and East Asia. He is also founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian Public Policy (London: Routledge) and Asian Education and Asian Education and Development Studies (Emerald) as well asBook Series Editor for Routledge and Springer.

Part 1: Setting the Scene.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2:  The Liberal Arts Tradition in Higher Education: The East and the West.- Chapter 3: Demographics and the Demand for Liberal Learning.- Part 2: Diverse Approaches to Reinventing Liberal Learning.- Chapter 4:  Educating Students for a World Lived in Common: The Essential Learning Outcomes.- Chapter 5:  The New Liberal Arts: A Case of Hiram College, USA.- Chapter 6:  Strengthening the Liberal Arts by Integrating Sciences: A Case from Erasmus University College, the Netherlands.- Chapter 7:  The Christian and Liberal Arts Focus in a Professional Graduate Program: A Case of the International Law School of Handong Global University, South Korea.- Chapter 8:  Recontextualizing the Liberal Arts within Traditional Research Universities in Asia.- Chapter 9:  Educating Entrepreneurial Leaders with Ethical Mindsets and Critical Thinking: A Case of Ashei University, Ghana.- Chapter 10:  GraduateStudies within a Liberal Arts College Context: A Case of Lingnan University, Hong Kong.- Chapter 11:  Assessment and Institutional Research to Shape the Future of Liberal Arts Education: A Case of Middlebury College, USA.- Chapter 12:  Sustainable Financial Models for Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Lessons from European Higher Education.- Chapter 13:  Seventy Years of International Partnership: International Christian University in Japan and Japan ICU Foundation in the USA.- Part 3: Toward the Future.- Chapter 14: Learning and Career Outcomes of Liberal Arts Education and Future Implications.- Chapter 15: A Decade of Opportunities and New Challenges.- Chapter 16: Future Trajectories of Lifetime Liberal Learning.