The Liberal Arts

The liberal arts connection.

Occupational therapists need to be critical of who teaches, what is taught, how it is taught, how it is applied, and to whom it is taught in the entire education program of prospective occupational therapists. Further, I recommend that occupational therapy educators on campus take the lead in initiating meetings and discussions that facilitate a functional conjoining of occupational therapy pra...

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Neuroscience and the Liberal Arts

Astonishingly, almost 25 years after the publication of “A Nation at Risk,” the clarion call for a radical overhaul of America’s education system, our Nation continues to find its students performing poorly on international exams in mathematics and sciences. In the spring of 2007, the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21 Century published the mos...

Liberal Arts – Research Publications

Una Osili. " Africa and the common Market, " published in the working paper series of Northwestern University. 2002.

Hesburgh praises liberal arts

“ R ight n o w w e ’re in a voca tiona l tre n d ,” Father T heo d o re H esburgh said last n igh t. “ Many regard educa­ t io n as so m e th ing th a t gets us a job , b u t i f th a t’s all th e re is to it, then educa tio n is a p re tty p o o r buiness.” In h is le c tu re e n tit le d “ T he Value o f a L ibera l E duca tion ,” H esburgh stressed the im p o rta n ce o f lea rn ing to be a ...