The spirit of Barbiana blows over Hong Kong

Abstract

The article aims to present a peculiar experience inside the U.S. higher education system: a group of liberal arts colleges, called “Work colleges”, promoting the purposeful integration of Work-Learning-Service while helping to reduce the cost of education. This experience, although limited in numbers and inserted into socio-territorial contexts partly different from those of our country, identifying some strong pedagogical paradigms, that are always able to connect particular and general, useful and good, thought and action, person and community.