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Reinventing Ourselves : Interdisciplinary Education, Collaborative Learning, And Experimentation In Higher Education

  • Reinventing Ourselves : Interdisciplinary Education, Collaborative Learning, And Experimentation In Higher Education

  • Attribution

    Barbara Leigh Smith, John McCann, editors

  • Publication Details

    Book, Anker Pub. Co, 2001

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      (LOWER LEVEL)  LB2361.5 .R437 2001         AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    To facilitate a better understanding of these alternatives, the book provides Historical perspectives and examples of institutional experiments that influenced the development of new colleges and programsWays in which organizational structure, culture, and pedagogy are changingExamples of impediments to institutional changeA conceptualization of a coherent organizational structure and faculty cultureQuantitative and qualitative reports that assess the effectiveness of ongoing efforts to adopt new approaches to teaching and learningAn overview of lessons from past attempts to reinvent the academyNew directions for alternative education Calling for both a rethinking of existing approaches to teaching and learning, and for a review of the traditional boundaries within institutions and between disciplines, this book offers a rich store of ideas for reforming higher education in America. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Contents

    • Dangerous outposts : progressive experiments in higher education in the 1920s and 1930s / Steven R. Coleman
    • The innovative colleges and universities of the 1960s and 1970s : lessons from six alternative institutions / Joy Rosenzweig Kliewer
    • Interdisciplinary education at Hampshire College : bringing people together around ideas / Ann P. McNeal and Frederick Stirton Weaver
    • Evergreen at twenty-five : sustaining long-term innovation / Barbara Leigh Smith
    • Bridging theory and practice : public service at the Evergreen State College / Magda Costantino … [et al.]
    • Learning communities : a convergence zone for statewide educational reform / Barbara Leigh Smith
    • Integration and assessment of service-learning in learning communities / Karen Kashmanian Oates and Laura Gaither
    • Uncommon sense : liberal education, learning communities, and the transformative quest / Les K. Adler
    • Toward an interdisciplinary epistemology : faculty culture and institutional change / Grant H. Cornwell and Eve W. Stoddard
    • Voices in seminar : ideologies and identities / Susan Fiksdal
    • Powerful pedagogies / William H. Newell
    • Should the teacher know the answer? : two ways to organize interdisciplinary study around inquiry / Donald L. Finkel
    • Jenny’s painting : multiple forms of communication in the classroom / Mark Pedelty
    • Student- active science in interdisciplinary studies : problems and solutions / Janet F. Ott
    • Increasing access in the sciences through interdisciplinary feminist perspectives / Gary L. Bornzin
    • Building an organization that reflects interdisciplinarity / Anne G. Scott and Celestino Fernández
    • The academic department in a multidisciplinary context : an argument for the administrative holding company amidst communities of learners / Joseph J. Comprone
    • Alternative ways of organizing : the importance of organizational culture / Sandra J. Sarkela
    • Reconceptualizing the faculty role : alternative models / James R. Chen … [et al.]
    • Interdisciplinary assessment for interdisciplinary programs / Karl L. Schilling
    • Students on interdisciplinary education : how they learn and what they learn / John McCann
    • Learning to see academic culture through the eyes of the participants : an ethnographic/ folkloristic approach to analyzing and assessing the cultures of alternative institutions / Peter Tommerup
    • The interdisciplinary variable : then and now / Julie Thompson Klein
    • Joining the conversation : an essay in guiding images for college teaching and learning / Robert H. Knapp, Jr.
    • After the revolution : new directions for alternative education / Robert Benedetti
    • Knowledge, politics. and interdisciplinary education / Charles W. Anderson

  • ISBN

    • 1882982355

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