The Reforming Of General Education

Author : S. A. Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351475355
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reforming of General Education written by S. A. Barnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive examination of general education by Daniel Bell scrutinizes the experiences of Columbia College, Harvard, and The College of the University of Chicago. These three basic models of general education in the country are set against a background of social change which includes a detailed analysis of structural changes in American society, the universities and the secondary schools and what Bell has called the emerging "postindustrial" society.Bell attacks the distinction between general education and specialism. He holds that one must embody and exemplify general education through disciplines and extend the context of specialism by setting it within the methodological grounds of knowledge. The common link between the two is the emphasis on conceptual inquiry. By emphasizing modes of conceptualization?"how one knows, rather than what one knows"?Bell insists that colleges can have a new, vivifying function between the pressures of the secondary and graduate schools.In his proposals for a new curriculum, Bell sets forth a scheme that imagines the first year as an acquisition of necessary historical and humanistic knowledge, the next two years as training in a discipline, and the last year, "the third-tier"?the most radical innovation?as a new kind of general education course which would "brake" specialization and apply disciplined knowledge to broad intellectual and policy questions.

Author : Daniel Bell
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reforming of General Education written by Daniel Bell and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA. Essay on the need to reform the higher education curriculum, with particular reference to columbia college - covers social change and cultural factors necessitating the reforms in university and secondary education.

Author : Daniel Bell (socioloog)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reforming of General Education written by Daniel Bell (socioloog) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Hanstedt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118329554
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Education Essentials written by Paul Hanstedt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Education Essentials "Full-time and part-time faculty in any discipline and at any size campus with any type of mission can pick up this volume and learn something that will help her or him improve teaching and learning.???"—From the Foreword by Terrel L. Rhodes, vice president for Curriculum, Quality, and Assessment, Association of American Colleges and Universities Every year, hundreds of small colleges, state schools, and large, research-oriented universities across the United States (and, increasingly, Europe and Asia) revisit their core and general education curricula, often moving toward more integrative models. And every year, faculty members who are highly skilled in narrowly defined fields ask two simple questions: "Why?" and "How is this going to affect me?" General Education Essentials seeks to answer these and other questions by providing a much-needed overview of and a rationale for the recent shift in general education curricular design, a sense of how this shift can affect a faculty member's teaching, and an understanding of how all of this might impact course and student assessment. Filled with examples from a variety of disciplines that will spark insights, General Education Essentials explores the techniques that can be used to ensure that students are gaining the skills they need to be perceptive scholars and productive citizens. "This is THE ONE BOOK for academics to get up to speed about reforming general education." —Jerry Gaff, senior scholar, Association of American Colleges and Universities

Author : Daniel Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560005919
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming of General Education written by Daniel Bell and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. BELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231029544
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Bell written by D. BELL and published by . This book was released on 1991-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Horowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596981571
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming Our Universities written by David Horowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s no secret that our universities have become hotbeds of radical leftist thought. While professors and administrators pay lip-service to concepts like open-mindedness and robust debate, they try to squash any opinion that doesn’t match their radical left world view. World-renowned campus activist David Horowitz wants to bring diversity back to the college campus. Horowitz describes his decades-long campaign against intellectual bigotry, grade discrimination, and the denial of basic rights to any and all whose opinions diverge from the extreme liberal orthodoxy.

Author : Josef A. Mestenhauser
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming the Higher Education Curriculum written by Josef A. Mestenhauser and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforming the Higher Education Curriculum is a collection of papers that explore how a college or university can plan and implement a systemwide program for internationalizing the curriculum, not only from the perspective of specific international programs, but throughout the entire university. The authors address this issue from a variety of perspectives, discussing reasons why internationalizing the curriculum is needed, recommending general approaches for doing so, and creating an outline for internationalizing courses in various disciplines. Also provided are suggestions for internationalizing faculty thinking and assessing student outcomes for international programs. This book will be of great interest to presidents, deans, vice presidents for academic affairs, faculty members, and administrators of international study programs.

Author : Warren Treadgold
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594039909
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The University We Need written by Warren Treadgold and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though many people know that American universities now offer an inadequate and incoherent education from a leftist viewpoint that excludes moderate and conservative ideas, few people understand how much this matters, how it happened, how bad it is, or what can be done about it. In The University We Need, Professor Warren Treadgold shows the crucial role of universities in American culture and politics, the causes of their decline in administrative bloat and inept academic hiring, the effects of the decline on teaching and research, and some possible ways of reversing the downward trend. He explains that one suggested reform, the abolition of tenure, would further increase the power of administrators, further decrease the quality of professors, and make universities even more doctrinaire and intolerant. Instead, he proposes federal legislation to monitor the quality and honesty of professors and to limit spending on administration to no more than 20 percent of university budgets (Harvard now spends 40 percent). Finally, he offers a specific proposal for the founding of a new leading university that could seriously challenge the dominance of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and Berkeley and attract conservative and moderate faculty and students now isolated in universities and colleges that are either leftist or mediocre. While agreeing with conservative critics that universities are in severe crisis, Treadgold believes that the universities’ problems largely transcend ideology and have grown worse partly because disputants on both sides of the academic debate have misunderstood the methods and goals of higher education.

Author : Wilson Smith
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801895852
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005 written by Wilson Smith and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-04-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender have assembled an essential reference for policymakers, administrators, and all those interested in the history and sociology of higher education.