Mission and Development
Mission
Research-Related Projects
This center conducts fundamental research into liberal arts and publishes the results as research-related projects. As previously stated, the advancement of research into the liberal arts derives from the current understanding that definitive answers on liberal arts have not yet been obtained. However, liberal arts research, practical application of education, and the exploration of methodologies is not forming a hierarchical pyramid. Instead the relation of those factors should be thought of as a multi-layered image, like a palimpsest with mutual transparency. For example, it is expected that research will be reflected in education and guide methodologies, while education may be a subject of research to certify the effects of methodologies. Furthermore, methodologies themselves may be one form of liberal arts to be studied and taught. At this center, we want research, education, and methodologies to be explored in parallel. Thus, this is the form of learning, and the way of the university.
“If that’s the case, the difference between a wise man and a fool is one of learning and one of not learning.”
Fukuzawa Yukichi, An Encouragement of Learning, first edition
The mission of the Keio Research Center for the Liberal Arts- (1)Research to define “liberal arts”
- (2)Practical application of education in order to learn “liberal arts”
- (3)Pursuit of methods to realize liberal arts research and the liberal arts education