Curriculum by design : innovation and the liberal arts core / Mary Thomas Crane, David Quigley, Andy Boynton, editors.

"This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators, faculty, and students to view liberal arts education as an ongoing process of innovation. It...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crane, Mary Thomas, 1956- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Quigley, David (Editor ), Boynton, Andrew C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2023.
Temas:
Boston College > History.
Boston College
Education, Higher > Massachusetts > Boston.
Education, Humanistic > Curricula > Massachusetts.
Curriculum change > Massachusetts.
Educational innovations > Massachusetts.
Enseignement supérieur > Massachusetts > Boston.
Éducation humaniste > Programmes d'études > Massachusetts.
Programmes d'études > Changements > Massachusetts.
Enseignement > Innovations > Massachusetts.
EDUCATION / Curricula
Curriculum change
Education, Higher
Education, Humanistic > Curricula
Educational innovations
Massachusetts
Massachusetts > Boston Metropolitan Area
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Curriculum revision and the foundations of American higher education
  • Part I: Innovation and the liberal arts core
  • Choreographing the conversation: how designers helped clear an academic logjam
  • What do we know? Or, the perils of expertise
  • Innovation
  • Ambitious plans meet reality: how we made the renewed core work
  • Slowing down and opening up: preparing faculty to co-design a general education course
  • Core renewal as creative fidelity
  • Reflection and core renewal
  • Surprised by conversation: a reflection on core renewal at Boston College
  • Part II: Teaching the renewed core
  • Complex problem courses
  • Teaching about a planet in peril
  • Experimenting with science and technology in American society
  • Global implications of climate change: importance of mentorship in a core education
  • Enduring question courses: bringing together divergent disciplines
  • How to live in the material world: two perspectives
  • Aesthetic and spiritual exercises, in and beyond the classroom
  • Enduring question courses: differentiating similar disciplines
  • Death in ancient Greece and modern Russia: reflecting on our reflection sessions
  • Spending a semester with "A possession for all time": justice and war in Thucydides
  • Inquiring about humans and nature: creativity, planning, and serendipity
  • The liberal arts core: engaging with current events, 2016-2020
  • Crossings: teaching "Roots and routes: reading/writing identity, migration, and culture"
  • The architecture of a black feminist classroom: pedagogical praxis in "Where #BlackLivesMatter meets #MeToo"
  • Truth-telling in history and literature: constructive uncertainty
  • Covid core lessons
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: The vision animating the Boston College core curriculum
  • Appendix B: Boston College core curriculum required courses
  • Appendix C: Complex problem and enduring question courses, 2015-2021
  • List of contributors
  • Index.

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