تقرير
Making General Education Meaningful
| العنوان: | Making General Education Meaningful |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Watkins, Shannon, James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal |
| المصدر: | James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. 2023. |
| الإتاحة: | James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. 353 East Six Forks Road Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27609. Tel: 919-828-1400; Fax: 919-828-7455; Web site: https://www.jamesgmartin.center/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 48 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2023 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Reports - Evaluative |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | General Education, Learning Processes, Skill Development, Program Design, Higher Education, Educational History, Western Civilization, Universities |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: | North Carolina |
| تدمد: | 1935-3510 |
| مستخلص: | Higher education serves many purposes. One purpose dominates, however: to students, their parents, future employers, government officials, and many academic administrators, higher education is all about preparing students for the professional workforce. Other requirements, such as general education programs, are considered to be of lesser importance. In many cases, they are designed solely to support the primary goal of training professionals, providing generalized skills that can be translated to many professions. Yet treating general education programs as secondary constitutes a great loss of opportunity, as well-designed programs have the potential to help students become better citizens, deeper thinkers, and more moral people. In this report, the author explores actual learning processes at a primary level and shows why a tightly crafted general education that deliberately connects various types of knowledge and learning is vastly superior to one that that allows students wide latitude to choose among unconnected courses that may appear to be interesting at the time but offer little long-term insight. And is also preferable to one that attempts to teach skills without bothering with the content involved. This report should be read--and acted upon--by all policymakers, administrators, and academics who are truly concerned with the quality of education that colleges and universities provide. |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Entry Date: | 2023 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | ED631301 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| تدمد: | 1935-3510 |
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