Higher Expectations (eBook)

Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century?

Derek Bok (Autor)

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2020
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21235-7 (ISBN)

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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 increase their contributions to society. In this landmark book, Derek Bok explores how colleges can reap the benefits of these discoveries and create a more robust undergraduate curriculum for the twenty-first century.Prior to this century, most psychologists thought that creativity, empathy, resilience, conscientiousness, and most personality traits were largely fixed by early childhood. What researchers have now discovered is that virtually all of these qualities continue to change through early adulthood and often well beyond. Such findings suggest that educators may be able to do much more than was previously thought possible to teach students to develop these important characteristics and thereby enable them to flourish in later life.How prepared are educators to cultivate these qualities of mind and behavior? What do they need to learn to capitalize on the possibilities? Will college faculties embrace these opportunities and make the necessary changes in their curricula and teaching methods? What can be done to hasten the process of innovation and application? In providing answers to these questions, Bok identifies the hurdles to institutional change, proposes sensible reforms, and demonstrates how our colleges can help students lead more successful, productive, and meaningful lives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Academic Institution • academic standards • Academic tenure • adolescence • Adviser • Allan Bloom • alumnus • American Association of Colleges and Universities • Association of American Colleges and Universities • Career • Charles W. Eliot • Citizenship • civic engagement • Classroom • Closing of the American Mind • Collaboration • college curriculum • community college • community service • Competence (human resources) • conscientiousness • critical thinking • Criticism • Curriculum • Deliberation • Distance Education • Economic Growth • economist • Education • educational aims and objectives • educational program • Educational Reform • Educational Testing Service • Edward Thorndike • Effectiveness • Employment • Ethical Dilemma • extracurricular activity • Faculty (academic staff) • Foreign Language • Frederick Rudolph • freshman • Funding • GI Bill • Grade inflation • Grading (education) • Graduate school • great books • higher education • Higher Education Research Institute • Higher Learning • Homework • indoctrination • Institution • Intercultural Competence • International Studies • Internship • learning • Lecture • lecturer • Liberal arts education • Liberal Education • Lifelong Learning • Longitudinal study • Lynne Cheney • Manuscript • Meta-analysis • Methods of Teaching • Morrill Act • Motivation • National Survey of Student Engagement • neuroscientist • New Course • Nonprofit Organization • obstacle • of education • Pedagogy • Philosopher • Political Science • Politician • Politics • positive psychology • Profession • Professional School • Professional training • Professor • psychologist • Public Policy • Purpose in Life • Requirement • Robert Maynard Hutchins • salary • Seminar • Service-learning • Sexual orientation • Skill • Social Science • Soft Skills • standard curriculum • Student • student affairs • student prep • Study Abroad • Suggestion • Teacher • Teacher Education • Teaching and learning center • Teaching Method • Technology • Test (assessment) • Title page • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • University • unorthodox teaching methods • vocational education • Voting • well-being • western canon • William Bennett • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21235-X / 069121235X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21235-7 / 9780691212357