Confronting challenges to the liberal arts curriculum : perspectives of developing and transitional countries / edited by Patti McGill Peterson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A global framework : liberal education in the undergraduate curriculum / Patti McGill Peterson -- China : general education grounded in tradition in a rapidly changing society / Kathryn Mohrman, Jinghuan Shi, and Manli Li -- India : structural roadblocks to academic reform / Pawan Agarwal and Rajashree Srinivasan -- Mexico : higher education, the liberal arts, and prospects for curricular change / Wietse de Vries and José Francisco Romero -- Pakistan : liberal education in context, policy, and practice / Zulfiqar H. Gilani -- Poland : the place of liberal education in post-Soviet higher education / Ewa Kowalski -- Russia : against the tide, liberal arts establishes a foothold in post-Soviet Russia / Jonathan Becker, Andrei Kortunov, and Philip Fedchin -- South Africa : reimagining liberal learning in a post-apartheid curriculum / Michael Cross and Fatima Adam -- Turkey : obstacles to and examples of curriculum reform / Kemal Gürüz -- Comparative observations : problems and prospects / Patti McGill Peterson.