TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bok,Derek
TI  - Higher expectations: can colleges teach students what they need to know in the 21st century?
SN  - 9780691206615
AV  - LA227.B686.H544 2022 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - United States
KW  - Curricula
KW  - College teaching
KW  - Educational change
KW  - Education and globalization
KW  - Philosophy & Social Aspects of Education
KW  - Higher & Continuing Education
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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