Events
Faculty of Education Lee Hysan Lecture on “Approaches to General Education?” by Professor Harry R. Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
17 Jan 2011
4:30 pm
Auditorium B6, Ho Tim Building, Faculty of Educatiion, CUHK
Professor Lewis is the author of numerous books and articles on various aspects of computer science. A member of the Harvard faculty since 1974, he has helped launch thousands of Harvard undergraduates into careers in computer science. His book about higher education, "Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future?" was a Boston Globe best-seller and the subject of favorable reviews in both the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal.
Online Registration
Ms. Angie Choi, Faculty of Education (Tel: 2609 6905; Email: achoi@cuhk.edu.hk)
All general education programs in U.S. universities fill a void left when moral education, once the considered at the core of a liberal education, faded as univesrities became secular, and as the classical curriculum collapsed under pressure for vocational and pre-professional training. In the specifics of its mission and methods, however, general education has been re-invented several times over the past hundred years in response to the social conditions of the day. Some Gen Ed programs were meant to inspire changes in secondary education as well. Drawing on lessons from history about why the various general education programs lost their momentum, I will describe what goals are achievable today and what approaches are now workable in secondary schools and universities.
The Lecture will be delivered in English.
On line Registration can be made at http://serverf.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/faculty/applications/candi_110117.
Live broadcasting is also available at http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/leehysan2011.
