Education professors and the like have set a stride to create more degree programs that harbor a larger view of disciplines(interdisciplinary degrees, double majors.. the "Liberal Arts" ) in the ideal that this type of holism would harbor unification of curriculum that greater reinforces our understanding of the places we individually partake in society, citizenship as a "global citizen" in a globalizing world; holism that would bring political science and global studies together, for example, and attempt to marry the two disciplines into joint relationship. What is "joint relationship" and its purpose to each field respectively? Why should a criminal justice major study cultural geography?
These arguments are well founded and we've discovered that holism in these curricula would indeed bring a greater universality to studying and becoming an independent human capable of thinking globally and dependently within our new global culture. However, holism in education seems but a dream at this point. It's been the topic of research in various disciplines for several decades-- how do we unite curricula and create a steady stable liberal arts program, beneficial to all absolute majors? My dear friend and colleague in teaching Tito Gomez postulates,
Care to guess what the experts will be calling this 5 years from now when they decide once again to put different terminology to what is fundamentally the same concept? LOL To quote the Kia Soul Hamster car rap, "You can get with this or you can get with that... Doo-da-dippity!"....Anyway, this is clearly not the first discussion on holism involving the various post-high school education systems. I'll offer it as a catalyst for now, and perhaps ideas on why this will work or why it won't will come with time.
Cheers.
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