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Author Harward, Donald W

Title Transforming Undergraduate Education : Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (395 pages)
Contents pt. 1. The theoretical arguments and themes -- pt. 2. The issues, rationale, constraints, and practices -- pt. 3. Implications likely to follow from sustained transformative changes -- pt. 4. Successful models and practices
Summary Donald Harward has assembled the deepest thinkers in higher education in one resource that combines theoretical considerations with analyses of fundamental issues related to learning and liberal education. This set of arguments, theories, and evidence are sufficient to encourage significant-transformative-changes in higher education. Contributors go on to offer examples of campus initiatives that document such changes, from directional nudges to major shifts of emphases and resources
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy
Education, Higher -- United States -- Administration
Universities and colleges -- United States.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher -- Administration
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
Education, Higher -- Philosophy
Universities and colleges
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Adams, Jann H
Axer, Jerzy
Bain, Ken.
Bass, Randall J
Bender, Thomas
Bergen-Cico, Dessa
Bylander, Joyce A
Chabotar, Kent John
Checkoway, Barry N
Crosby-Currie, Catherine A
Detweiler, Richard A
Finley, Ashley P
Freedland, Cassia
Guarasci, Richard
Haynes, John K
Humphreys, Debra
Keith, Bruce
Kezar, Adrianna J
Kidd, Julie J
Lane, Phyllis
Lieberman, Devorah
Loker, William M
Long, Theodore E
Major, Linda J
McGill, Michael V
McHugh, Elizabeth
McWilliams, Mindy
D.Mitchell, Nancy
Pingree, Sally Engelhard
Reich, Alice (Jill) N
Riley, Joan B
Roach, Daniel Tad
Schneider, Carol Geary
Scobey, David M
Sessa, Valerie I
Staub, Shalom
Stimpson, Catharine R
Sullivan, William M
Swaner, Lynn E
Wolf, Cynthia
Zimmerman, Christine
ISBN 9781442206762
1442206764