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Practice for life : making decisions in college /

In this book, which is based on a five-year study following over 200 students at seven colleges, the authors argue that becoming liberally educated is a complex and messy process involving making decisions and learning from them. Colleges create spaces (both physical and metaphysical) in which stude...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Cuba, Lee J. (Autor), Jennings, Nancy E. (Autor), Lovett, Suzanne, 1958- (Autor), Swingle, Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface -- Restarting college -- Time -- Connection -- Home -- Advice -- Engagement -- Practice for life -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. 
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