Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Grover, Robert; O'Flaherty, Katherine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third 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.

Many such challenges are structural: perpetual budgetary constraints, changing expectations about the role of high education and the "return" it ought to provide to the student, and the changing technological landscape of higher education and society more generally. The contributors here examine the structural challenges honors education currently faces and those forces it is likely to confront in the future, offering insights about how honors might respond creatively to these present and future challenges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216213963
• Artikelnr.: 74830232

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

Table of Contents Foreword John Zubizaretta
Columbia College Chapter 1: Introduction: Confronting Structural Realities and Challenges Robert W. Glover
University of Maine Katherine M. O'Flaherty
Arizona State University Chapter 2: Creating Tomorrow's Honors Education: Theory
Practice
and Student Development Jaclyn M. Chancey
University of Connecticut Jennifer Lease Butts
University of Connecticut Daniel Mercier
Wesleyan University Chapter 3: Bridging The Academic Gap Brett Nachman
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chapter 4: Honors Program Innovation and the Role of Technology: A Case Study of Honors e-Portfolios Maureen Kelleher
Northeastern University Lauren Pouchak
Northeastern University Chapter 5: Honors in a Cross-National Context: Scotland's Master of Arts with Honors Darren J. Reid
University of Maine Chapter 6: Across the Great Divide: Distance Education and the Future of Honors Robert W. Glover
University of Maine Katherine M. O'Flaherty
Barrett
The Honors College
Arizona State University About the Editors and Authors Index