The reflective practitioner: the role of a public liberal-arts university in saving liberal education Available to Purchase

– This paper seeks to discuss the role of a public liberal-arts university in education.

– The author first defines the principles and definitions of liberal education, then analyses these ideas in relation to public liberal-arts universities.

– Liberal education holds enduring value in a world where state support for higher education is steadily decreasing and the author concludes that society needs public liberal-arts universities in order to maintain freedom of thought and democracies.

– This piece presents a view of public liberal-arts universities in the wider context of liberal education, recession and worldwide threats to democracy and personal freedoms.