Transforming undergraduate education : theory that compels and practices that succeed / edited by Donald W. Harward ; case studies edited by Ashley P. Finley.
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 395 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Forewords / Julie J. Kidd and Sally Engelhard Pingree
- A Copernican moment: on the revolutions in higher education / David M. Scobey
- The ideals of the liberal artisan: notes toward an evolving group biography / Catharine R. Stimpson
- The theories, contexts, and multiple pedagogies of engaged learning: what succeeds and why? / Lynn E. Swaner
- Reuniting the often neglected aims of liberal education: student well-being and psychosocial development / Dessa Bergen-Cico and Joyce A. Bylander
- Renewing the civic purpose of liberal education / Barry N. Checkoway, Richard Guarasci, and Peter L. Levine
- Evoking wholeness: to renew the ideal of the educated person / Theodore E. Long
- Knowledge and judgment in practice as the twin aims of learning / William M. Sullivan
- Assessment and evaluative studies as change agents in the academy / Ashley P. Finley
- Fostering faculty leadership for sustainable change in the academy / Adrianna J. Kezar and Alice (Jill) N. Reich
- Threshold concepts of teaching and learning that transform faculty practice (and the limits of individual change) / Kenneth R. Bain and Randall J. Bass
- Financing change: priorities, resources, and community involvement / Kent John Chabotar
- 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
- Implications of transformative change in higher education for secondary education: a dialogue / Daniel Tad Roach and Michael V. McGill
- Do disciplines change? Would flipping the curriculum right-side up lead to change? / Thomas Bender
- Liberal education and the policy landscape / Carol Geary Schneider and Debra Humphreys
- Introduction to case studies / Ashley P. Finley
- Public sphere pedagogy: connecting student work to public arenas--California State University, Chico / Thia Wolf and William M. Loker
- Engaging faculty in learning communities: lessons learned--Dickinson College (Pennsylvania) / Shalom D. Staub
- Curriculum infusion: educating the whole student and creating campus change--Georgetown University (Washington DC) / Joan B. Riley and Mindy McWilliams
- Attempting organizational transformational learning from the ground up: lessons learned--Montclair State University (New Jersey) / Valerie I. Sessa
- Implementation of peer-led team learning and 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
- Listening to the agents of pedagogical change--St. Lawrence University (New York) / Catherine A. Crosby-Currie and Christine Zimmerman
- An enduring experiment--the Evergreen State College (Washington) / Phyllis Lane and Elizabeth McHugh
- 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
- Building institutional capacity to forge civil pathways--University of Nebraska, Lincoln / Nancy D. Mitchell and Linda J. Major
- Successful models and practices--Wagner College (New York) / Devorah A. Lieberman and Cassia Freedland.