Higher expectations: can colleges teach students what they need to know in the 21st century?.
Bok, Derek.
Higher expectations: can colleges teach students what they need to know in the 21st century?. [print] - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)2022. - 216 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
An overview -- A brief history of the college curriculum from 1636 to the present -- Educating citizens -- Preparing students for an interdepenent world -- Character: can colleges help students acquire higher standards of ethical behavior and personal responsibility? -- Helping students find purpose and meaning in life -- Improving inerpersonal skills -- Improving intrapersonal skills -- Unconventional methods of teaching -- Prospects for change -- Encouraging reform -- Reflections on the future.
In recent decades, cognitive psychologists have discovered that several qualities of mind, such as empathy, creativity, conscientiousness, and teamwork, that were previously thought to be fixed in early childhood, continue to develop and hence are potentially teachable in college. This book explores what we know and don't yet know about how to develop these capabilities and how colleges can overcome the current obstacles to progress.
9780691206615
GBC243848 bnb
020517635 Uk
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
Education, Higher--Curricula--United States.
College teaching--United States.
Educational change--United States.
Education and globalization.
Philosophy & Social Aspects of Education Higher & Continuing Education
Curricula.
LA227.B686.H544 2022
Higher expectations: can colleges teach students what they need to know in the 21st century?. [print] - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)2022. - 216 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
An overview -- A brief history of the college curriculum from 1636 to the present -- Educating citizens -- Preparing students for an interdepenent world -- Character: can colleges help students acquire higher standards of ethical behavior and personal responsibility? -- Helping students find purpose and meaning in life -- Improving inerpersonal skills -- Improving intrapersonal skills -- Unconventional methods of teaching -- Prospects for change -- Encouraging reform -- Reflections on the future.
In recent decades, cognitive psychologists have discovered that several qualities of mind, such as empathy, creativity, conscientiousness, and teamwork, that were previously thought to be fixed in early childhood, continue to develop and hence are potentially teachable in college. This book explores what we know and don't yet know about how to develop these capabilities and how colleges can overcome the current obstacles to progress.
9780691206615
GBC243848 bnb
020517635 Uk
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
Education, Higher--Curricula--United States.
College teaching--United States.
Educational change--United States.
Education and globalization.
Philosophy & Social Aspects of Education Higher & Continuing Education
Curricula.
LA227.B686.H544 2022