Curriculum by Design: Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core

By: Elizabeth Graver and Daniel Callahan and John Butler and William Bole and Juliet Schor and Prasannan Parthasarathi and Robert Bartlett and Min Hyoung Song and Sylvia Sellers-García and Andy Boynton and David Quigley and Lynne Anderson and Régine Michelle Jean-Charles and Brian Gareau and Mary Thomas Crane and Holly VandeWall and Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace and Allison Adair and Hanne Eisenfeld and Toby Bottorf and Thomas Epstein and Tara Gareau and Stacy Grooters and Gregory Kalscheur and Brian Robinette and Elizabeth H. Shlala and Jenna Tonn and Dunwei Wang

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Synopsis: 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 aims to provide insight into what they did and why they did it and to provide a candid account of what has worked and what has not worked. Although all institutions are different, they believe their experiences can provide guidance to others who want to change their general education curriculum or who are being asked to teach core or general education courses in new ways.The book also includes short essays by a number of faculty colleagues who have been teaching in BC’s new innovative core courses, providing practical advice about the challenges of trying interdisciplinary teaching, team teaching, project-or problem-based learning, intentional reflection, and other new structures and pedagogies for the first time. It will also address some of the nuts and bolts issues they have encountered when trying to create structures to make curriculum change sustainable over time and to foster ongoing innovation.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 272 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781531501341
Related ISBNs:: 9781531501334, 9781531501327
Publisher:: Fordham University Press
Date of Addition:: 05/16/23
Copyrighted By:: June M. Jordan Literary Estate Trust. Used by permission.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Education, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Mary Thomas Crane
Edited by:: David Quigley
Edited by:: Andy Boynton