Realizing General Education : AEHE Volume 42, Number 2.
Wells, Cynthia A.
Realizing General Education : AEHE Volume 42, Number 2. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (112 pages) - J-B ASHE Higher Education Report Series (AEHE) Series . - J-B ASHE Higher Education Report Series (AEHE) Series .
Intro -- Realizing General Education: Reconsidering Conceptions and Renewing Practice -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- The Contextual Significance of General Education in Higher Education -- General Education's Interconnection With Higher Education's Purpose -- General Education and the Current Context -- General Education: Many Meanings, Multiple Functions -- Purpose and Organization of Monograph -- History Matters: Tracing the Development of General Education -- Foundations (1636-1783) -- Additions and Tensions (1784-1869) -- Industrialization and Mediation (1870-1939) -- Rapid Growth and New Expectations (1940-1976) -- Overgrowth and Struggle (1977-20055) -- Historical Reflections and Insights -- Contemporary Perspectives and Models -- Inherited Functions -- Student Learning -- Communal Well-Being -- Institutional Purposes for General Education -- Models of General Education -- Prominent Theoretical Models -- Trends and Variations on the Models -- Contemporary Insights -- Effective General Education in the Current Context -- Characteristics of Good Practice on the Whole -- Institution-Specific -- Intentional -- Coherence -- Integrative -- Innovative, While Building on Strengths -- Innovations in General Education -- Common Text Programs -- Common Curriculum -- E-Portfolios -- Learning Communities -- Capstone Experiences -- Effective General Education Course Design -- Effective Practices to Support and Sustain General Education -- Faculty Development -- Faculty Rewards -- Equipping Cocurricular Educators -- Institutional Assessment and General Education -- Sustaining and Renewing General Education -- Closing Reflections and Recommendations -- General Education: A Term of Endurance -- Recommendations -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author. About the ASHE Higher Education Report Series -- Call for Proposals -- Recent Titles -- Order Form -- EULA.
9781119244660
General education--United States.
Electronic books.
LB41
370
Realizing General Education : AEHE Volume 42, Number 2. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (112 pages) - J-B ASHE Higher Education Report Series (AEHE) Series . - J-B ASHE Higher Education Report Series (AEHE) Series .
Intro -- Realizing General Education: Reconsidering Conceptions and Renewing Practice -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- The Contextual Significance of General Education in Higher Education -- General Education's Interconnection With Higher Education's Purpose -- General Education and the Current Context -- General Education: Many Meanings, Multiple Functions -- Purpose and Organization of Monograph -- History Matters: Tracing the Development of General Education -- Foundations (1636-1783) -- Additions and Tensions (1784-1869) -- Industrialization and Mediation (1870-1939) -- Rapid Growth and New Expectations (1940-1976) -- Overgrowth and Struggle (1977-20055) -- Historical Reflections and Insights -- Contemporary Perspectives and Models -- Inherited Functions -- Student Learning -- Communal Well-Being -- Institutional Purposes for General Education -- Models of General Education -- Prominent Theoretical Models -- Trends and Variations on the Models -- Contemporary Insights -- Effective General Education in the Current Context -- Characteristics of Good Practice on the Whole -- Institution-Specific -- Intentional -- Coherence -- Integrative -- Innovative, While Building on Strengths -- Innovations in General Education -- Common Text Programs -- Common Curriculum -- E-Portfolios -- Learning Communities -- Capstone Experiences -- Effective General Education Course Design -- Effective Practices to Support and Sustain General Education -- Faculty Development -- Faculty Rewards -- Equipping Cocurricular Educators -- Institutional Assessment and General Education -- Sustaining and Renewing General Education -- Closing Reflections and Recommendations -- General Education: A Term of Endurance -- Recommendations -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author. About the ASHE Higher Education Report Series -- Call for Proposals -- Recent Titles -- Order Form -- EULA.
9781119244660
General education--United States.
Electronic books.
LB41
370