Hanstedt General Education Essentials

A Guide for College Faculty
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-32953-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

General Education Essentials
"Full-time and part-time faculty in any discipline and at anysize campus with any type of mission can pick up this volume andlearn something that will help her or him improve teaching andlearning.???"--From the Foreword by Terrel L. Rhodes, vicepresident for Curriculum, Quality, and Assessment, Association ofAmerican Colleges and Universities
Every year, hundreds of small colleges, state schools, andlarge, research-oriented universities across the United States(and, increasingly, Europe and Asia) revisit their core and generaleducation curricula, often moving toward more integrative models.And every year, faculty members who are highly skilled in narrowlydefined fields ask two simple questions: "Why?" and "How is thisgoing to affect me?"
General Education Essentials seeks to answer these and otherquestions by providing a much-needed overview of and a rationalefor the recent shift in general education curricular design, asense of how this shift can affect a faculty member's teaching, andan understanding of how all of this might impact course and studentassessment.
Filled with examples from a variety of disciplines that willspark insights, General Education Essentials explores thetechniques that can be used to ensure that students are gaining theskills they need to be perceptive scholars and productivecitizens.
"This is THE ONE BOOK for academics to get up to speed aboutreforming general education." --Jerry Gaff, senior scholar,Association of American Colleges and Universities

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanstedt, Paul

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rhodes, Terrel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword xi
About the Author xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
PART ONE: THE BIG PICTURE 9
1 Structuring General Education 11
2 Some Examples of Integrative Curricular Models 25
PART TWO: GENERAL EDUCATION AT THE COURSE LEVEL 43
3 Designing Effective General Education Courses 45
4 How the Purposes of General Education Can Reshape a Course: Case Studies 54
PART THREE: GENERAL EDUCATION AT THE ASSIGNMENT AND ASSESSMENT LEVEL 73
5 Designing Appropriate Assignments for General Education 75
6 The Chapter You May Want to Skip: Institutional Assessment and General Education 94
Conclusion 107
Appendix A: Syllabus for Artistic and Literary Responses to Science and Technology 109
Appendix B: Syllabus for The Way Things Work: Sky Diving and Deep Sea Diving 117
Appendix C: Syllabus for Traveling Without Leaving: Global Sociology 125
Appendix D: Syllabus for Elite Deviance: Crime in the Suites 137
Appendix E: Syllabus for Does Gun Control Save Lives? 145
Appendix F: Syllabus for Statistics and Botany 151
References 157
Index 161

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Hanstedt is a professor of English at Roanoke College andthe recipient of a FIPSE grant for sustainable faculty development,several teaching awards from three different institutions, and anInnovation Award for helping to create greater collaboration amongfaculty at his home institution.
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) isthe leading national association concerned with the quality,vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberaleducation.