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Publication date: 4 February 2014

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

Troy D. Paino

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

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Purpose

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

Design/methodology/approach

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

Findings

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.

Originality/value

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.

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On the Horizon, vol. 22 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/OTH-10-2013-0040
ISSN: 1074-8121

Keywords

  • Liberal education
  • Citizenship
  • Liberal arts
  • Democracy
  • Public university
  • Reflective practitioner

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Publication date: 31 August 2020

Liberal and vocational education: the Gordian encounter

Caroline J. Burns and Samuel M. Natale

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how liberal higher education can strengthen vocational higher education.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how liberal higher education can strengthen vocational higher education.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper uses Shay's (2013) framework of curriculum differentiation to articulate how the strengths and shortcomings of liberal education differ from those of vocational education and to allow the differences highlighted to inform a resolution to each other's shortcomings.

Findings

There is nothing new in the findings that liberal education differs from vocational education and that both have shortcomings. What the paper presents is a viewpoint that the differences are not confirmation that these two approaches to education are in opposition but rather that they complement each other. The strength of one is the weakness of the other.

Originality/value

The perspective taken in this paper is developed using the language of semantic density (SD) and semantic gravity (SG). Using Shay's semantic field of recontextualized knowledge, this paper suggests that liberal and vocational education inhabit two sides of contexts and concepts continua. The paper further proposes that both are alike in a meaningful way because both have unsuccessfully managed the role of context in their curricula.

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Education + Training, vol. 62 no. 9
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-03-2020-0064
ISSN: 0040-0912

Keywords

  • Curriculum
  • Professional education
  • Vocational education
  • Liberal education
  • Liberal arts

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Publication date: 19 February 2020

The French Financial Controversies in the Aftermath of the 1848 Crisis: An Overview of Socialist and Liberal Positions

Claire Silvant and Clément Coste

The year 1848 is considered by historians as a political and economic turning point in France: a major political crisis took place in the form of the February Revolution…

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The year 1848 is considered by historians as a political and economic turning point in France: a major political crisis took place in the form of the February Revolution, accompanied by extensive financial troubles for the French government. The economists of that time actively debated the economic causes and consequences of the crisis. This chapter is devoted to the analysis of these financial controversies in French economic thought around 1848. If the political and philosophical debates of 1848 between the liberals and the socialists are quite well known by historians of economic thought, their financial side has been relatively neglected. According to the authors of this chapter, it is nevertheless of great interest to examine the liberal and socialist ideas of that time. This chapter aims to investigate this little-studied question by raising three main issues: the first one consists of presenting the different diagnoses of the 1848 financial crisis from socialist and liberal viewpoints. Second, it proposes an analysis of the content of theoretical controversies about ways to overcome the financial troubles, particularly regarding the trade-off between taxation and debt. Lastly, it emphasizes the role of this period for the subsequent constitution of a financial orthodoxy in France.

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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Public Finance in the History of Economic Thought
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-41542020000038A007
ISBN: 978-1-83867-699-5

Keywords

  • French liberal school
  • French socialists
  • public finance
  • taxation
  • debt
  • public expenditure
  • B.12
  • B.14

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Publication date: 21 December 2010

Identity repositioning: The case of Liberal Democrats and audience attention in British politics, 1950–2005

Soorjith Illickal Karthikeyan and Filippo Carlo Wezel

Empirical research demonstrates that category specialism is aligned with competitive success and that social actors indulging in perceptual violations of social codes are…

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Empirical research demonstrates that category specialism is aligned with competitive success and that social actors indulging in perceptual violations of social codes are subjected to devaluations. Through category generalism, however, social actors may obtain access to diverse set of audience segments. This chapter investigates such a trade-off in the context of political ideologies – conceived here as composed of social codes and exposed to a discipline similar to that of market categories. A successful instance of repositioned identity is introduced and discussed: the case of the British Liberal Democrats Party during the post-WWII period. Particular attention is dedicated to the process of recombination of own and oppositional social codes. This strategy contributed to increase the audience attention received on each of the issues traditionally “owned” by the Liberal Democrats Party. Party level analyses suggest that the borrowed issues improved audience attention when they contributed to extend and clarify the ideological roots of the Liberal Party. The implications of this case study for current research on market categories are further discussed.

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Categories in Markets: Origins and Evolution
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2010)0000031012
ISBN: 978-0-85724-594-6

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Publication date: 21 July 2005

Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology in Public Goods and Trust Games

Lisa R. Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo

We test whether party affiliation or ideological leanings influence subjects' behavior in public goods experiments and trust games. In general, party is unrelated to…

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We test whether party affiliation or ideological leanings influence subjects' behavior in public goods experiments and trust games. In general, party is unrelated to behavior, and ideology is not related to contributions in the public goods experiment. However, there is some evidence that self-described liberals are both more trusting and more trustworthy.

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Experimental and Behavorial Economics
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0278-0984(05)13005-3
ISBN: 978-0-76231-194-1

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Publication date: 27 September 2014

Trading Truth for Legitimacy in the Liberal State: Defending John Rawls’s Pragmatism

John P. Anderson

Post-Enlightenment liberalism faces a paradox: The liberal principle of legitimacy demands states justify their constitutional order in terms citizens can accept, but…

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Post-Enlightenment liberalism faces a paradox: The liberal principle of legitimacy demands states justify their constitutional order in terms citizens can accept, but there is no uncontroversial comprehensive conception of justice on which to form the requisite consensus. Rawls resolves the paradox by embracing a pragmatism that abandons the concept of truth in the political forum to secure consensus and legitimacy. Philosophers have challenged the idea of justice without truth as incoherent, and social critics have attacked it as naïve. This chapter defends Rawls’s pragmatism against such critics and argues that the future of liberal constitutionalism may depend on its success.

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Special Issue: Law and the Liberal State
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720140000065001
ISBN: 978-1-78441-238-8

Keywords

  • Political liberalism
  • public reason
  • constitutionalism
  • pragmatism
  • pluralism
  • neutrality

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Publication date: 13 May 2019

Terrorism and the Liberal Order: A Conceptual Framework

Raj Kumar Kothari and Priyanka Bhaduri

In the post-9/11 period, tackling the vertical and horizontal growth of international terrorism has become a major challenge for the international community, more…

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In the post-9/11 period, tackling the vertical and horizontal growth of international terrorism has become a major challenge for the international community, more pertinently for the liberal states. About three decades ago, Paul Wilkinson wrote a book entitled Terrorism and the Liberal State in which he made a hypothetical statement that the liberal states in today’s world were more vulnerable to terrorist attacks and threats than any other political system. Totalitarian societies do not provide any space to terrorism in view of the fact that this system does not recognize the importance of civil societies. However, the point to be noted is that in today’s globalized international order, terrorist activities are not only confined within the territory of liberal societies alone, rather it has engulfed many parts of the globe that includes non-liberal societies as well. Therefore, strengthening democratic regimes and values is not the solution to abolish terrorism. In this context, this chapter attempts to test Wilkinson’s propositions that liberal states are more vulnerable to terrorism than any other political system by making a comparative study between democratic and non-democratic regimes to identify the recent trends of terrorism.

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The Impact of Global Terrorism on Economic and Political Development
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-919-920191008
ISBN: 978-1-78769-919-9

Keywords

  • Transnational terrorism
  • liberal values
  • regime
  • comparative analysis
  • globalization
  • liberal state
  • political system
  • K22
  • K33
  • K40

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Publication date: 27 September 2014

Health Care and the Disembodied Politics of American Liberalism

Daniel Skinner

This chapter problematizes the body politics of American liberalism, as viewed through the lens of health policy. The author suggests that American efforts to pursue basic…

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This chapter problematizes the body politics of American liberalism, as viewed through the lens of health policy. The author suggests that American efforts to pursue basic health goals are undercut by the particular way in which American liberals – and their state – conceptualize bodies. To understand the theoretical basis of this body politics, the chapter examines policy preoccupations such as the institution of informed consent, malpractice reform, and efforts to establish a Patients’ Bill of Rights. Finally, considering the ideological contexts that have given rise to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the author gestures toward the establishment of a stronger liberal – and possibly post-liberal – health care system that takes the embodiment of its subjects seriously.

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Special Issue: Law and the Liberal State
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720140000065004
ISBN: 978-1-78441-238-8

Keywords

  • Liberalism
  • embodiment
  • health care
  • patient
  • rights

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Publication date: 22 August 2016

Subversive Cooking in Liberal Feminism, 1963–1985

Stacy J. Williams

This study examines liberal second-wave feminists’ writings about cooking. Most scholarship of liberal feminism has focused on the attempts to integrate women into…

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This study examines liberal second-wave feminists’ writings about cooking. Most scholarship of liberal feminism has focused on the attempts to integrate women into previously male-dominated public spaces such as higher education, the professions, and political office. Less attention has been paid to how these feminists politicized feminized spaces such as the home. A longstanding tension between the housewife role and feminist identities has led many to theorize that feminists avoid or resent domestic tasks. However, I argue that some liberal feminists in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s suggested engaging with cooking in subversive ways that challenged patriarchal institutions and supported their political goals.

Methodology/approach

I analyze 148 articles about cooking in Ms. magazine between 1972 and 1985. I also analyze the copy and recipes within four community cookbooks published by liberal feminist organizations.

Findings

I find that liberal feminists suggested utilizing time- and labor-saving cooking methods, encouraged men to cook, and proposed that women make money from cooking. These three techniques challenged the traditional division of domestic labor, supported women’s involvement in the paid workplace, and increased women’s control of economic resources.

Originality/value

This study turns the opposition between feminism and feminized tasks on its head, showing that rather than avoiding cooking, some liberal feminists proposed ways of cooking that challenged patriarchal institutions. I show how subordinate populations can develop ways of subversively engaging with tasks that are typically seen as oppressive, using them in an attempt to advance their social position.

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Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620160000022022
ISBN: 978-1-78635-054-1

Keywords

  • Feminism
  • gender
  • cooking
  • food
  • cookbooks
  • feminist methodologies

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Publication date: 17 September 2004

THE INFLUENCE OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY ON DIT SCORES

Richard A. Bernardi, David F. Bean and Dawn W. Massey

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Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1574-0765(04)09002-8
ISBN: 978-1-84950-807-0

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