EDUCATED PERSON DIALOGUE
What Does It Mean to be an Educated Person?
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Examples of questions raised in Online Dialogues since May 2003
- What does it mean to be an educated citizen/person? [May 2003]
- Is helping students to become educated citizens/persons an appropriate goal for all majors at SJSU? Does the student’s incoming level of preparedness for university-level study matter? [Fall 2003] A new question based on the 9/9/03 face-to-face discussion: What do we expect an educated person/citizen to be able to do?
- Broadly speaking, what is needed to help someone become an educated citizen/person? What was the "most educational" course or experience you had that might be reproduced for others? What role should a university play in helping students become educated citizens/persons? Who all needs to be involved – what is the role for each party? Could we create a roles and responsibilities chart? [Fall 2003]
- What is the best term for what we are trying to help our students become – educated citizens? Educated persons? Lifelong learners? Something else? [Spring 2004]
- Is SJSU's GE program sufficient to help our students to become educated persons? Are improvements needed? If yes, what? If no, why? [Summer/Fall 2004]
- What is the role of departments and colleges in helping their majors to become educated citizens/persons? [Fall 2004]
- How does a student know if he or she has become an educated person? How do we know? Are there tools to help make these determinations? [Fall 2004]
- Should "general education" have a different name that is more descriptive and meaningful?
- What are three key activities SJSU should undertake or improve upon to help us do a better job of helping our students become educated persons and to help them understand that that is a reason for pursuing a university education? [Spring 2005]
- What do the words "responsible (or good) citizenship" and "socially responsible" mean in the context of a university and our programs? (These words are used in our GE program learning objectives and university mission statement.) How do we help students to achieve these objectives? How do we know if they were achieved? [Spring 2006]
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