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Please scroll down for the English version – UNNC academic participates in 2022 THE Liberal Arts Forum
不久前，2022年度泰晤士高等教育博雅教育论坛举办，亚洲高教领域具有影响力的专家共聚一堂、探讨博雅教育在亚洲高等教育中的积极作用。宁波诺丁汉大学教学副校长陈志伟博士作为特邀嘉宾出席论坛，参与了“变革的载体：博雅教育在促进可持续发展中的作用”主题会议。
陈志伟博士在讲话中分享道，中国科学院院士、宁波诺丁汉大学校长杨福家教授一直大力提倡博雅教育，是亚洲博雅大学联盟的主要推动者之一。在杨福家校长看来，宁波诺丁汉大学的成功其实也证明了博雅教育的重要。这位国际知名的教育家认为，中国的高等教育若要真正走向世界，博雅教育是必须要修炼的基本课。
陈志伟博士表示，宁诺在专业结构上没有完全采用传统的博雅体系，但始终注重小班教学、自由讨论和团队协作。“因为我们知道，对学生来说，师生互动比教材内容更有价值。好比对雇主来说，员工的技能比知识更有价值。”
诺丁汉大学在其《未来教育白皮书》中提到，关系的建立和归属感是学生生涯中的关键。“我们发现，学习从根本上来说是一种社交行为。” 陈志伟博士说，宁诺建立了个人导师制度，为每个学生的学习过程中都配备了导师。导师会经常与学生沟通，并对学生的学习和实践进行指导，同时帮助学生建立在学校的归属感，让他们积极融入学习社区。“这一点上，宁诺其实跟美国的博雅教育有异曲同工之妙。”此外，宁诺面向未来的课程体系中，强调培养学生的科研学术能力、专业竞争力和领导力，这一点与联合国可持续发展目标要求在教育中注重认知、行为和社会情感的发展上高度一致。
陈志伟博士表示：“宁诺的愿景是提供一种不仅限于学位的教育。为了实现这个目标，学校致力于创造一个赋能学生的教学社区，让他们在终其一生的自我发现之旅中拥有足够的能力和意志。”他说，“宁诺不会教条式地追求书面意义上的某种博雅教育。对各院校管理层来说，应该既考虑到各校丰富的多样性，同时结合其他院校的宝贵经验，对不同理念多加理解和包容。”
UNNC academic participates in 2022 THE Liberal Arts Forum
The University of Nottingham Ningbo China’s (UNNC) Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Dr K. Cohen Tan, recently attended the 2022 Times Higher Education (THE) Liberal Arts Forum as a speaker. Dr Tan was one of the university leaders in Asia invited to explore and discuss the positive impacts of a Liberal Arts Education. Dr Tan participated in the forum under the theme, “A vehicle for change: The role of liberal arts in promoting sustainable development”.
Dr Tan shared in his speech that academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and UNNC’s founding President, Professor Yang Fujia, has consistently advocated for a liberal arts education and was one of the prime movers in creating the Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities (AALAU). Dr Tan highlighted that although UNNC did not offer a traditional Liberal Arts programme structure, we have always had small seminar sizes that facilitate free discussion and collaboration, and we also know from our experience that “students value contact over content, just as employers value skills over knowledge”.
Dr Tan referred to the University of Nottingham’s White Paper on the Future of Education which identified both relationship-building and sense of belonging as key to the student journey. He said, “we recognise that learning is fundamentally a social activity”. He also highlighted UNNC’s personal tutoring system to assign academic mentor to each student to serve as a guide or interlocutor throughout their student journey to build that sense of relationship and create a community of learners, which he argued is “the hallmark of American Liberal Arts Colleges”. Additionally, just as the SDG for Education lists cognitive, behavioural and socio-emotional domains to be developed, the UoN White Paper highlights research and academic skills, professional competencies, and leadership qualities as key learning outcomes to future-proof our graduates.
Finally, Dr Tan pointed out that University of Nottingham’s vision is “to offer an education that is more than a degree”, and he said that “we accomplish this by embedding university values to shape an imagined community of learners where students are empowered and confident to exercise their agency of will and independence of mind on a lifelong journey of self-discovery”. In other words, UNNC pursues the spirit but not necessarily the letter of the modern paradigm of Liberal Arts Education, since “we should not dogmatically insist there is only one royal road to freedom”. For Liberal Arts Education to flourish within Asian universities, Dr Tan said that university leaders need to “take into account the rich diversity while respecting the cultural heritage of different Asian societies that collectively form the overlapping horizons of our experience so that we may bring about a positive change in furthering mutual understanding and tolerance”. In Dr Tan’s view, that is the value of liberal arts education in promoting sustainable and peaceful development in the region.
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