Richard A. Detweiler, "The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Defining and Gathering Data on the Liberal Arts
The chapter discusses the research challenge of defining the liberal arts and conducting a thorough data gathering. The speaker explains the process of developing a sample that would be representative and gathering data through over a thousand interviews of students from various institutions. They also discuss the development of specific behavioral questions to operationalize the concepts of non-vocational study, engaging pedagogy, development of larger perspectives, and being in an authentic educational community.
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