Higher Expectations : Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century? /

How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of societyIn recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and increas...

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Main Author: Bok, Derek (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Educational change.
Education, Higher > Curricula.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Education and globalization.
College teaching.
EDUCATION / Higher.
vocational education.
unorthodox teaching methods.
undergraduate education.
student prep.
standard curriculum.
purpose in life.
professional training.
positive psychology.
methods of teaching.
lifelong learning.
higher learning.
educational reform.
citizenship.
William Bennett.
Western canon.
Morrill Act.
Lynne Cheney.
GI Bill.
Frederick Rudolph.
Edward Thorndike.
College curriculum.
Closing of the American Mind.
Charles W. Eliot.
American Association of Colleges and Universities.
Allan Bloom.
Educational change > United States.
Education, Higher > Curricula > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
College teaching > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo

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