This book discusses liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in the context of East Asia, specifically focusing on Japan, China and S. Korea where it has become an emerging issue in higher education in recent years. It first explores the development, concepts and challenges of liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in East Asia. It then delineates the implications of the best practices of selected liberal arts colleges inside and outside East Asia, and offers policy and pedagogical guidelines for the future of liberal arts colleges and programs in East Asia and beyond.

Shares unique case studies of liberal arts colleges both in and outside East Asia

Part ISetting the Scene.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Development of LiberalArts Education and Colleges: Historical and global perspectives.- Chapter 3 TheEast-West Axis? Liberal Arts Education in East Asian universities.- Part IIExamining Liberal Arts Colleges and Programs in East Asia.- Chapter 4 Goingglobal and adapting to local context: Handong Global University in SouthKorea.- Chapter 5 Liberal Arts for a New Japan: The case of the InternationalChristian University.- Chapter 6 Making the Global Local: Twenty years atMiyazaki International College, Japan.- Chapter 7 Adapting the Western model ofLiberal Arts Education in China: The cases of Fudan University and LingnanUniversity.- Chapter 8 Liberal Arts Education in Postwar Taiwan: A case studyon General Education Reform at National Taiwan University.- Part III Learningfrom outside East Asia.- Chapter 9 Global education with high impact and deeplearning in the United States: The Liberal Arts at Pomona College.- Chapter 10Liberal Arts and Sciences Education for the 21st Knowledge Economy: A casestudy of Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands.- Part IV ExploringSustainable Models in East Asian Context.- Chapter 11 Revisiting key valuesroles and challenges of Liberal Arts Education in East Asia.- Chapter 12Cultivating Intercultural Communicative Competence in Liberal ArtsInstitutions.- Chapter 13 Applications of digital technologies in Liberal ArtsInstitutions in East Asia.- Chapter 14 Internationalization and Facultywell-being in Liberal Arts Colleges: An often neglected issue in East Asia.- Chapter15 Conclusions: Summary, remaining issues and recommendations.