AI in Liberal Arts Education

Learning on the Edge of our Future
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-32151-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Digital Education and Learning

examines how liberal arts education prepares humans to exercise judgment, responsibility, creativity, and ethical reasoning in partnership with generative artificial intelligence. As AI becomes embedded in teaching, research, and professional life, higher education faces not merely a technological challenge but a human one: how to cultivate the intellectual and moral capacities needed to engage AI wisely.

Distinct from tool-driven or policy-oriented accounts of AI in education, this book centers liberal arts ways of knowing—interpretation, ethical reasoning, historical and contextual understanding, communication, creativity, and interdisciplinary thinking—as essential infrastructure for an AI-rich future. Organized into five chapters, the book moves from the inevitability of AI’s presence, to the role of humans as moral agents “behind the wheel,” to the specific skills fostered by liberal arts education, and finally to AI as a complex, interdisciplinary “wicked problem.”

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kostihova, Marcela

Makarevitch, Irina

Hilk, Caroline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik E-Learning, Bildungstechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: GenAI Without Illusions.- Chapter 2: Humans Behind the Wheel.- Chapter 3: The Skills We Need, the Education We Have.- Chapter 4: AI and Wicked Problems.- Chapter 5: Preparing students to shape an AI-transformed world.

Über Autor(innen)

Marcela Kostihova is Professor of English and Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Hamline University, USA, and a former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, School of Education and Leadership, and School of Business. A scholar of Shakespeare and global cultural circulation, she has led institution-wide initiatives in faculty development, curriculum design, and interdisciplinary education, with recent work focused on the ethical and pedagogical implications of generative AI in higher education.

Irina Makarevitch is Professor of Biology at Hamline University, USA. Trained as a plant geneticist, she conducts research on plant stress responses and has mentored undergraduate students in all stages of the research process, including coauthoring peer-reviewed publications. Her scholarly work also focuses on inclusive STEM education, course-based undergraduate research, and the integration of high-impact pedagogies across the undergraduate curriculum.

Caroline Hilk  serves as the Assistant Vice Provost of Faculty and Academic Affairs and the Director of the Center for Educational Innovation for the University of Minnesota, USA. Trained as an educational psychologist, she has led strategic initiatives on learning outcomes assessment, faculty development and GenAI literacy for students and instructors. She was a co-chair of the University's Presidential Task Force on AI, leading the working group on AI in Education.