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Changing the Conversation About Higher Education
Author(s): Robert Thompson (Author)
- Publisher: R&L Education (UK)
- Publication Date: 8 Mar. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 238 pages
- ISBN-10: 147580184X
- ISBN-13: 9781475801842
Book Description
For those administrators, faculty and all readers who want to understand how colleges can get better at their most important work, they will find invaluable guidance in Changing the Conversation about Higher Education. Robert Thompson has brought together the work of more than twenty professionals across thirteen universities to present important research on the obscure issues of vision, structure, and cultural transformation as they pertain to administrators and faculty. The result is a much-needed discussion on how to improve faculty and curricular reform for student success. Changing the Conversation about Higher Education addresses the contributions and findings from this research and is intended for academic administrators, faculty, and graduate students who are dedicated to improving undergraduate teaching and learning. The research was directed at two core aims of a liberal education: critical thinking and writing.
Editorial Reviews
Review
There’s plenty of room for improvement in the quality of American higher education. To do that we have to be systematic and this book, more than any other, shows what ‘systematic’ means.
This impressive collection uniquely crosses boundaries that usually remain separate. The contributors effectively and persuasively show ways to integrate theories of learning with methods of teaching, the scholarship on teaching and learning with assessment, and the professional identities of faculty as both teachers and scholars.
With all the swirling controversy about who gets into college, how it gets paid for, and how well it pays off, we risk forgetting that the fundamental work of colleges is teaching and learning and that at root a college becomes better when its faculty teach more effectively and its students learn more. Readers who want to understand how colleges and universities can get better at their most important work will find invaluable guidance in this book.
