Transforming Undergraduate Education

Transforming Undergraduate Education
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Artikel-Nr:
9781442206762
Veröffentl:
2011
Seiten:
432
Autor:
Donald W. Harward
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Donald Harward has assembled the deepest thinkers in higher education in one resource that combines theoretical considerations with analyses of fundamental issues related to learning and liberal education. This set of arguments, theories, and evidence are sufficient to encourage significant—transformative—changes in higher education. Contributors go on to offer examples of campus initiatives that document such changes, from directional nudges to major shifts of emphases and resources.
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and encouragement. And for those who are pausing—looking positively but cautiously at what needs to change—at the prospects and challenges that may be encountered, Harward and the collection of authors offer an invaluable and innovative resource.

Given the intensity of interest regarding the “problems in higher education,” Harward notes how the systemic sources of those problems are infrequently addressed and even rarer is the offering of solutions or suggestions for positive actions. Harward and his colleagues see the achievement of this book as doing both—understanding the problems and offering solutions.

The book assembles the voices of leaders, scholars, practitioners, critics and others committed to higher education; collectively they combine theoretical considerations with analyses of fundamental issues related to learning and liberal education. The resulting arguments, theories, and evidence are sufficient to encourage significant—transformative—changes in higher education. Contributors offer examples of campus initiatives that document such changes, from directional nudges to major shifts of emphases and resources—from theoretical arguments to case studies and practices that suggest and guide constructive steps in efforts at change.
Forewords
Julie J. Kidd
Sally Engelhard Pingree

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. The Theoretical Arguments and Themes
Donald W. Harward

Part II. The Issues, Rationale, Constraints and Practices
Chapter 1: A Copernican Moment: On the Revolutions in Higher Education
David M. Scobey
Chapter 2: The Ideals of the Liberal Artisan: Notes towards an Evolving Group Biography
Catharine R. Stimpson

Chapter 3: The Theories, Contexts, and Multiple Pedagogies of Engaged Learning: What Succeeds and Why?
Lynn E. Swaner
Chapter 4: Reuniting the “Often Neglected” Aims of Liberal Education: Student Well-Being and Psychosocial Development
Dessa Bergen-Cico
Chapter 5: Renewing the Civic Purpose of Liberal Education
Barry N. Checkoway, Richard Guarasci and Peter L. Levine

Chapter 6: Evoking Wholeness: To Renew the Ideal of the Educated Person
Theodore E. Long

Chapter 7: Knowledge and Judgment in Practice as the Twin Aims of Learning
William M. Sullivan

Chapter 8: Assessment and Evaluative Studies as Change Agents in the Academy
Ashley P. Finley

Chapter 9: Fostering Faculty Leadership for Sustainable Change in the Academy
Adrianna J. Kezar and Alice (Jill) N. Reich

Chapter 10: Threshold Concepts of Teaching and Learning that Transform Faculty Practice (and the Limits of Individual Change)
Kenneth R. Bain and Randall J. Bass

Chapter 11: Financing Change: Priorities, Resources, and Community Involvement
Kent John Chabotar

Part III. Implications Likely to Follow from Sustained Transformative Changes

Chapter 12: International Perspectives on Liberal Education: An Assessment in Two Parts
A: International Insights on the Essence of the Liberal Arts
Richard A. Detweiler
B: International Perspectives on Liberal Education: Polish Case Example
Jerzy Axer

Chapter 13: Implications of Transformative Change in Higher Education for Secondary Education: A Dialogue
Daniel Tad Roach and Michael V. McGill

Chapter 14: Do Disciplines Change? Would Flipping the Curriculum Right-Side Up Lead to Change?
Thomas Bender

Chapter 15: Liberal Education and the Policy Landscape
Carol Geary Schneider and Debra Humphreys

Part IV. Successful Models and Practices

Chapter 16: Introduction to Case Studies
Ashley P. Finley

Case Studies and Best Practices

Chapter 17: Public Sphere Pedagogy: Connecting Student Work to Public Arenas—California State University, Chico (California)
Cynthia Wolf and William M. Loker

Chapter 18: Engaging Faculty in “Learning Communities”: Lessons Learned—Dickinson College (Pennsylvania)
Shalom Staub

Chapter 19: Curriculum Infusion: Educating the Whole Student and Creating Campus Change— Georgetown University (Washington DC)
Joan B. Riley and Mindy McWilliams

Chapter 20: Attempting Organizational Transformational Learning from the Ground Up: Lessons Learned—Montclair State University (New Jersey)
Valerie I. Sessa

Chapter 21: Implementation of Peer Led Team Learning, a Leadership Initiative and Establishment of a New Faculty Track as Examples of Institutional Change—Morehouse College (Georgia)
Jann H. Adams and John K. Haynes

Chapter 22: Listening to the Agents of Pedagogical Change—St. Lawrence University (New York)
Catherine A. Crosby-Currie & Christine Zimmerman

Chapter 23: An Enduring Experiment—The Evergreen State College (Washington)
Phyllis Lane and Elizabeth McHugh

Chapter 24: Building the Capacity to Lead: Lessons Learned in the Evolution of the Leader Development System—United States Military Academy at West Point (New York)
Bruce Keith

Chapter 25: Building Institutional Capacity to Forge Civic Pathways—University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Nebraska)
Nancy D. Mitchell and Linda J. Major

Chapter 26: Successful Models and Practices—Wagner College (New York)
Devorah A. Lieberman and Cassia Freedland

Contributor Biographies
Index

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