Cultural Controversies And Cultural Awareness:Tradition And Innovation In Liberal And General Education For The 21^st Century

Modern general education is evolved by the classical liberal education.Recalling the history of the evolution from liberal education to general education,as well as general education carding process of the 20th century to the 21st century general education reform in the context of globalization,information technology background.The study found that general education is always intertwined with the historical and cultural traditions of different countries and cultural characteristics University,Educational Philosophy Schools and experienced different direction and path,and the formation of a different general education goals curriculum models and theoretical schools in the complex and changeable society background,general education which has been growing hardly in a variety of complex,intense,contradictory cultural game,has become an important development of higher education landscape in modern times especially in the 20th century.And whither general education in the 21st century?This is not only targeting the development of university general education itself,but also will directly affect the 21 Century College Goes,and thus the future development of human civilization produce the value-oriented which is subtle and can not be ignored.Domestic and international paper works about the general education as voluminous.This paper chose the "Whither General Education in the 21st Century?"problem as the main direction of this era,used the methodology of history and logic unity and was combined with case study approach to reveal the inherent contradictions and inherent logic General Education Development.And as a guideline,thinking and exploring the future direction of General Education in the 21st Century.This paper presents the first chapter in question:What is an educated person in the 21st century?Whither General Education in the 21st Century?Chapters ? and ?,respectively,to the United States and China,for example,from two longitudinal study General Education,status,trends,and the two are compared;Based on this research perspectives in turn focused on globalization and information technology in the 21st century are two times,it analyzes the opportunities and challenges of the times and the whole of general education in the 21st century higher education faced a fourth form of the thesis Chapter chapters.On the basis of research and draws a large number domestic and international general education research results,the following exploratory understanding:"Cultural Games" is the general education development throughout the internal contradictions in science and humanities,elegant and practical,cultural and various forms of the game classical modern,western culture and multiculturalism,the formation of the 20th century general education basic outlook;"Culture intellectuals and defend the cultural spirit,cultural standard of the University of return" is the goal which has always been pursuing by the general education.In the 21st century,general education should be to "civilization consciousness" in a variety of "cultural game" in with the local community to the world of "civilized consciousness" consciousness,with the help of information technology,exploration and innovation "Globalization of holistic education" mode.In this study,general education development for the two countries to sort out and compare history and study of globalization,information technology trends Liberal Education Reform in the obtained results,not only in theory has been concluded should also practice general education reform in the 21st century China some inspiration.By studying this paper,it holds that the current general education of most colleges and universities,mainly to stay in the cultural quality of education to general education stage of transition,the overall lack of top-level design and systems thinking,in particular,the lack of a leading modern university spirit.Papers in the game culture and cultural consciousness of the main line on the basis of the three places of China(including mainland China,Hong Kong,Taiwan)general education were combing the history and current status of the test,proposed the following curriculum design scheme:The General Education Development in "Culture and Civilization Game consciousness" typical case history and general education courses as "Introduction",full screen and use rich Internet open general education curriculum resources,and hired domestic and international and research through open knowledge of education known experts and scholars speaker teachers online course development team,develop a high level,all media in the form of general education online course"Introduction" and sharing in domestic colleges and universities.Which it is to improve the quality and level of general education,and general education online course "Introduction" as a link and bridge,with the world to carry out an effective form of dialogue.This paper argues that a "conscious culture and civilization Game" as the main theme and general education,at home and abroad must also be closely fierce conflicts and cultural complex game,and timely collection and choose some typical cases,as a general education curriculum research and discussion topics and topics,organize teachers and students to carry out to face the reality of the research study.Thus we come out of the present paper attention and study another topic:innovative general education curriculum-teaching mode,change to instill knowledge of the characteristics of teachers teach general education model,and promote learning styles change,change "classroom" for the "school",so that learners truly become general education subjects,master.This need to learn science and information technology as the two support points,create new teaching university general education environment and rich teaching resource library,and create the appropriate learning evaluation,curriculum evaluation,the new teacher evaluation system,create course-Teaching support service system,create the appropriate course of policies,institutions,mechanisms to promote team building among teachers of different universities and students team-building,this is possible to realize high-quality general education curriculum resources sharing,the Chinese University General Education faster to the world even the globalization of holistic education.