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" Making Sense of Liberal Education in Nigeria: A Study of Faculty Perspectives "
Cermak, Robert M.
Renn, Kristen
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1058122
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TL57239
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Cermak, Robert M.
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Making Sense of Liberal Education in Nigeria: A Study of Faculty Perspectives\ Cermak, Robert M.Renn, Kristen
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Michigan State University
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2021
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Ph.D.
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2021
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196 p.
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In the past few decades, scholars have taken note of the spread of “American-style” liberal education curricula and programs to numerous foreign higher education systems around the world. The nascent literature on liberal education’s global diffusion however has examined some international contexts, including sub-Saharan Africa, less comprehensively than others. Furthermore, empirical research is limited on the mechanisms by which liberal education programs are adapted and enriched by local actors and institutions to acclimate curricula to their own milieus overtime and in practice. In order to begin filling in the gaps in this discourse, this qualitative case study examines the sensemaking and agency of liberal education faculty at a West African higher education institution, the University of Nigeria Nsukka’s School of General Studies. This research addresses the following questions: (1) what are the forces that influenced the initial development of and ongoing adjustments to the General Studies curriculum at the University of Nigeria, (2) how do faculty in the School of General Studies make sense of these forces, and (3) how do General Studies faculty exercise agency in their curricular work as they negotiate making sense of these forces? A ‘glonacal’ perspective on curricular change (that is, that the forces influencing curricula, as well as faculty sensemaking and agency, simultaneously arise, flow, and interact globally, nationally, and locally) underpins the theoretical lens brought to bear in answering these questions and generating findings.
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African studies
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Curriculum development
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Educational administration
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Higher education
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Renn, Kristen
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Michigan State University
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