General Education Essentials (ePub)

General Education Essentials

"Full-time and part-time faculty in any discipline and at any
size campus with any type of mission can pick up this volume and
learn something that will help her or him improve teaching and
learning.???"--From the Foreword by Terrel L. Rhodes, vice
president for Curriculum, Quality, and Assessment, Association of
American Colleges and Universities

Every year, hundreds of small colleges, state schools, and
large, research-oriented universities across the United States
(and, increasingly, Europe and Asia) revisit their core and general
education curricula, often moving toward more integrative models.
And every year, faculty members who are highly skilled in narrowly
defined fields ask two simple questions: "Why?" and "How is this
going to affect me?"

General Education Essentials seeks to answer these and other
questions by providing a much-needed overview of and a rationale
for the recent shift in general education curricular design, a
sense of how this shift can affect a faculty member's teaching, and
an understanding of how all of this might impact course and student
assessment.

Filled with examples from a variety of disciplines that will
spark insights, General Education Essentials explores the
techniques that can be used to ensure that students are gaining the
skills they need to be perceptive scholars and productive
citizens.

"This is THE ONE BOOK for academics to get up to speed about
reforming general education." --Jerry Gaff, senior scholar,
Association of American Colleges and Universities