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Summary: Featured Selection Transforming Education Bookstore Mar/2000
Review: March 2000 featured selection for the Transforming Education Bookstore. The text has also been selected for the Institute on the College of the Community June 2000. This is an excellent comprehensive resource for faculty, curriculum committee members, curriculum designers and developers. Part one establishes a sound historical context that is very useful when considering the parameters of curriculum required for 21st century learners. Part two discusses the central aims of the undergraduate curriculum including issues of quality, coherence, intellectual skills, diversity, and at-risk students. Part three focuses upon specific academic disciplines including; arts and science, humanities, natural sciences and mathematics, social sciences, the arts, professional and occupational education. Part four describes directions for reform including; teaching across the curriculum, interdisciplinary studies, internationalizing the curriculum, transforming the curriculum through diversity, creating learning communities and using technology. Part five focuses upon administration and assessment of the curriculum. Part six deals with changing the curriculum.
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