The Rights-based Approach to CHED’s Proposed Reframed General Education Curriculum
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Are our college students overloaded with GE subjects? Perhaps. Should there be improvements in pedagogy and teaching quality? Definitely. Still, there is something profoundly limiting in the proposition that higher education must mainly serve as a training ground for job-ready adults.
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