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ERIC Number: EJ132917
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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What the Enduring Effects of Higher Education Tell Us About a Liberal Education
Heath, Douglas H.
Journal of Higher Education, 47, 2, 173-90, Mar/Apr 76
Systematic and intensive interviews with 68 men in their early thirties suggested that the principal effects of a liberal education were the stabilization, symbolization, and integration of values; the effects of graduate and professional school were the integration and allocentric maturation of intellect and the symbolization of self-concept. (Editor/JT)
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Educational Objectives, General Education, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Intellectual Development, Professional Education, Research, Self Concept, Values
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