Exploration of Discipline and Specialty Development Paths for Education under the Vision of “New Liberal Arts”

The “New Liberal Arts” aims to drastically reform traditional liberal arts education, promote interdisciplinary integration between the humanities and sciences, gradually incorporate new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data into liberal arts teaching, and guide students to engage in cross-disciplinary and cross-field learning to enhance their core competencies. As one of the eight major disciplines in universities, education serves as an indispensable “front” in the construction of the New Liberal Arts. Based on this, this paper analyzes the new requirements imposed by the New Liberal Arts initiative on the discipline of education, examines the challenges faced by the development of education-related majors, explores the development paths for education disciplines and specialties in the context of the New Liberal Arts, and proposes promoting cross-disciplinary integration, improving the curriculum system for education majors, conducting special teaching on artificial intelligence, innovating classroom teaching methods, and optimizing talent training programs to comprehensively enhance the quality of teaching and education in the discipline of education.