Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Grover, Robert; O'Flaherty, Katherine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally agreed upon definitions of what honors is and what it might aspire to be in the future. This generates possibility and flexibility, while also creating rather serious challenges.

The contributors document the decades-long structural transformations that led to the rise of honors education while also providing perspective on the present and future challenges in honors education. The chapters address such issues as ensuring equity in honors, how we ought to think about student success and frame this for external stakeholders, and how the diffusion of honors-inspired pedagogies elsewhere in the university forces us to rethink our mission and our day-to-day practice. Throughout, their investigations are grounded in the present while turning a keen and perceptive eye to the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 94
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475818284
• Artikelnr.: 45222401

Autorenporträt

Robert W. Glover, PhD, is an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine. His research focuses on democratic engagement, public policy, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Katherine M. O'Flaherty, PhD, is an honors faculty fellow in the Honors College at Arizona State University. She is an historian who currently researches student engagement and pedagogy and assessment in higher education.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Rhonda Phillips
Purdue Honors College Chapter 1: Introduction: The Seat near the Electrical Outlet Robert W. Glover
University of Maine Katherine M. O'Flaherty
Arizona State University Chapter 2: Growth and Evolution of Collegiate Honors Education in the United States Patricia Smith
University of Central Arkansas Rick Scott
University of Central Arkansas Chapter 3: Equity in Honors: An Academic Oxymoron? Patrick Bahls
University of North Carolina
Asheville Jessica Pisano
University of North Carolina
Asheville Chapter 4: Educating Honors Students for Today
Tomorrow
and Twenty-Years-Out Amy E. Story
Baldwin Wallace University Chapter 5: Seminars
Curricula
Rigor: Paradoxical Constraints on the Future of Honors Thomas J. Pfaff
Ithaca College Robert Sullivan
Ithaca College About the Editors and Authors Index