General Education: Image and Reality.

Overview & Synopsis

What general education needs in America is more faculty and administrative support, and a thorough reexamination of the general education component of most postsecondary curricula. General education should provide an academic jointure for affective and cognitive learning so that analysis of feelings, goals, and values could be studied in tandem with the knowledge available in the realm of specialized study. General education should provide opportunities for students to become familiar with the objectives, problems and methods of the social sciences as well as the natural and physical sciences and humanities. Among the more significant general education objectives in the social sciences would be the application of its knowledge and methodologies to insure a more profound insight into the pressing issues of our time (the urban crisis, racial problems, population pressures, food supplies, and the role of women). General education should be the substantial, continuous, and integrated study of man and as such should be present in every higher education curriculum. (Author/PG)