从博雅书院教育的角度来看美国高等教育的起源、变迁与发展

Origin, Change and Development of American Higher Education:From a Perspective of Liberal Arts Education

本文先从古典博雅书院教育的视角来探讨美国高等教育,从17世纪的起源,到19世纪与20世纪的重大变迁与发展,再论及美国公立大学的起源和各种大学的类型与排名,最后再从现代博雅书院教育入手,检视美国公立大学之中博雅书院教育的内涵以及海峡两岸暨香港、澳门目前推动的博雅书院教育的实验。

From a perspective of classic liberal arts education,this article first explores the origin of American higher education in the 17 th century and its critical change and development from being liberal arts-centered to professionally centered in the 19 th century and 20 th century,and then touches upon the origin of American public universities as well as the different types and rankings of American universities and colleges.Lastly,making references to contemporary liberal arts education,it examines the content of liberal arts education within American public universities,and those experiments of liberal arts education currently undertaken in China's Mainland,Taiwan,Hong Kong and Macao.