Contemporary Music Rehearsal Discourse and Its Application in Liberal Arts Education

Liberal Arts and Distance Education : Can Socratic Virtue ( αρετε ) and

"The diversity of cultures in this world is really important. It's the richness that we have which, in fact, will save us from being caught up in one big idea." 1 " Globalization must not be a new version of colonialism. It must respect the diversity of cultures which, within the universal harmony of peoples, are life's interpretative keys." Pope John Paul II 2 " If people use this system [of s...

Music Performance Anxiety and Interventions in Conservatory and Liberal Arts Institution Music Students

Music performance anxiety (MPA) is reported in musicians of all experience, levels, and genre. However, solo classical musicians report MPA more often and at higher levels than performers in other genres because of its formal culture and traditional structure. Within solo classical musicians, collegiate training greatly differs between conservatories that award a Bachelor of Music (B.M.) and li...

Liberal Arts and Medicine The Liberal Arts and Medicine: How the Liberal Arts Tradition Can Impact Health Care Reform

Science at Liberal Arts Colleges : A Better Education ?

IT WAS THE SUMMER OF 1970. Carol and I had spent four years at Grinnell College, located in the somnolent farming community of Grinnell, Iowa. Now, newly married, we drove westward, where we would enter the graduate program in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. How would our liberal arts education serve us in the Ph.D. program of one of the world’s great research universities?...

Liberal arts: the foundation for occupational therapy education.

Occupational therapy lacks a consensus regarding its theory base, technical tools, contribution to society, ethical stance, and relationship to medicine. This study proposes steps to achieve a new consensus and to resolve the crisis focus on entry-level education. The proposed steps include the critical assessment of the educational foundation for practice, the recognition that a liberally educ...