Realizing General Education: Reconsidering Conceptions and Renewing Practice

Realizing General Education: Reconsidering Conceptions and Renewing Practice

AEHE Volume 42, Number 2

Wells, Cynthia A.

John Wiley & Sons Inc

09/2016

112

Mole

Inglês

9781119244653

15 a 20 dias

General education is widely touted as an enduring distinctive of higher education, but what do we actually mean by general education? Differing perspectives not only make it challenging to consider its significance, but also open it up to a wide range of determinations regarding its effectiveness.
Executive Summary vi Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii The Contextual Significance of General Education in Higher Education 1 General Education s Interconnection With Higher Education s Purpose 1 General Education and the Current Context 4 General Education: Many Meanings, Multiple Functions 6 Purpose and Organization of Monograph 9 History Matters: Tracing the Development of General Education 12 Foundations (1636 1783) 13 Additions and Tensions (1784 1869) 16 Industrialization and Mediation (1870 1939) 21 Rapid Growth and New Expectations (1940 1976) 24 Overgrowth and Struggle (1977 2005) 27 Historical Reflections and Insights 30 Contemporary Perspectives and Models 33 Inherited Functions 33 Models of General Education 39 Contemporary Insights 50 Effective General Education in the Current Context 51 Characteristics of Good Practice on the Whole 51 Innovations in General Education 55 Effective General Education Course Design 58 Effective Practices to Support and Sustain General Education 60 Institutional Assessment and General Education 63 Sustaining and Renewing General Education 67 Closing Reflections and Recommendations 68 General Education: A Term of Endurance 69 Recommendations 70 Notes 73 References 75 Name Index 86 Subject Index 89 About the Author 92
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