Cultural Awareness, Practical Imagination, and Belonging When children were asked for their dreamed careers, the answers might be pilots, teachers, doctors, and police officers… Those dreamed jobs are not only the jobs they desired, but also represent the different ways they want to contribute to the community. The purpose of the education is to find meanings and values for their lives, shape the knowledge they get from the schools so that they have the responsibilities to care about their community, and find belonging in the colleges --a mini society (Chambliss & Takacs, 2014; Darling, 2015; Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005; Sullivan, 2012).
One category of the most important students’ attitudes, values and beliefs that students would improve
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This is what so called the practical imagination. Higher education shapes the practical imagination (Sullivan, 2012). It is the practical imagination that “proposes what we can make of our lives, and the things we may hope for, individually and together” (Sullivan, 2012, p. 104). The purpose of being educated is not benefit for the students themselves; it is the benefit of the whole society. Higher education has the responsibility to prepare students to shape lives with meaning and purposes (Darling, 2015; Sullivan, …show more content…
Business major students can learn the basic knowledge about their majors. For example, if the student is majoring in accounting, without the knowledge of auditing, how can he or she fit into the work in their future career? College do helps students to learn the professional knowledge that are suitable for careers. But many colleges today may lack some practical training that prepare students better for their future. Stewart (2010) suggests that the new model of universities should developed which focused more on real world business and practical training. For instance, almost all American higher education implement the internship, which is designed for students to have feelings for real working