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El llamado de Liz Coleman para reinventar la educación de las artes liberales

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Liz Coleman, Directora del colegio Bennington, comunica un llamado a las armas hacia una reforma radical en la educación superior. Contrario a la tendencia de presionar a los estudiantes a enfocarse cada ves mas en aéreas especializadas dentro de sus estudios, ella propone que la educación sea realmente un cruce de disciplinas -- una educación que dinámicamente combine todas las aéreas de estudios para poder enfrentarse a los gran problemas de nuestra época.

Liz Coleman radically remade Bennington College in the mid-1990s, in pursuit of a new vision: higher education as a performing art. Full bio »

Translated into Spanish by Hector M. Garcia
Reviewed by Isaac Segura
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