ISBN:
9780813928159
,
081392815X
,
9780813928326
,
081392832X
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 165 p
,
23 cm
DDC:
378.1/990973
Keywords:
Universities and colleges Curricula
;
Educational change
;
USA
;
College
;
Curriculum
;
USA
;
Hochschule
;
Curriculum
Abstract:
Fixing College Education predicts new roles for students and faculty, redefines educational breadth and depth, and calls for deeper assessment of learning and teaching. Muscatine highlights the outstanding colleges and universities, including Harvard, Boston University's University Professor's Program, Evergreen State College, and Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, that have already remade their curricula successfully or adopted features like the ones he proposes. Muscatine argues that the new curriculum is better able than the old to produce good scholars and good citizens for the twenty-first century. --from publisher description
Abstract:
Fixing College Education predicts new roles for students and faculty, redefines educational breadth and depth, and calls for deeper assessment of learning and teaching. Muscatine highlights the outstanding colleges and universities, including Harvard, Boston University's University Professor's Program, Evergreen State College, and Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, that have already remade their curricula successfully or adopted features like the ones he proposes. Muscatine argues that the new curriculum is better able than the old to produce good scholars and good citizens for the twenty-first century. --from publisher description
Description / Table of Contents:
What's wrong with college -- An environment for learning -- Faculty responsibility to students -- A curriculum design for the future -- Toward a new curriculum: colleges with innovative features -- The new curriculum: some innovative colleges -- Research, scholarship, teaching, and the education of Professors -- Final problems -- Appendix: Evergreen State College sample course descriptions.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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