Curriculum by Design: Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core

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