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Cultivating Inquiry–Driven Learners – A College Education for the Twenty–First Century
Clifton Conrad
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Description for Cultivating Inquiry–Driven Learners – A College Education for the Twenty–First Century
paperback. Examples illustrate possibilities for developing inquiry-driven learners across the curriculum and are drawn from institutions with remarkably different missions and identities-from research universities to liberal arts colleges. Num Pages: 152 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JM; JNAM; JNM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
Inquiry-driven learners anticipate, embrace, and adapt to disruptive change. Clifton Conrad and Laura Dunek advance a transformative purpose of a college education. They invite stakeholders from across higher education to engage in vigorous dialogue about the aims of a college education - and how to realize those aims. Increasingly influenced by market forces, many universities employ a default purpose of a college education: preparing students for entry into the workforce. As a result, students remain unprepared for a world in which much of the knowledge they acquire will have a shelf life of only a few years. "Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners" ... Read more
Inquiry-driven learners anticipate, embrace, and adapt to disruptive change. Clifton Conrad and Laura Dunek advance a transformative purpose of a college education. They invite stakeholders from across higher education to engage in vigorous dialogue about the aims of a college education - and how to realize those aims. Increasingly influenced by market forces, many universities employ a default purpose of a college education: preparing students for entry into the workforce. As a result, students remain unprepared for a world in which much of the knowledge they acquire will have a shelf life of only a few years. "Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners" ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405995
SKU
V9781421405995
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About Clifton Conrad
Clifton Conrad is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Laura Dunek is a lawyer and a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reviews for Cultivating Inquiry–Driven Learners – A College Education for the Twenty–First Century
An interesting, thoughtful, stimulating book.
Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education
Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners is a thoroughly and deftly-argued work. [It is] an impassioned book, one written with a sense of urgency that fulfills its introductory mandate as a book written out of fire. It is also a highly disciplined work whose readers will find its content ... Read more
Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education
Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners is a thoroughly and deftly-argued work. [It is] an impassioned book, one written with a sense of urgency that fulfills its introductory mandate as a book written out of fire. It is also a highly disciplined work whose readers will find its content ... Read more