The College Curriculum: A Reader

Author:   Joseph L. DeVitis ,  Linda Irwin-DeVitis ,  Joseph L. DeVitis
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   62
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9781433117886


Pages:   446
Publication Date:   23 August 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Joseph L. DeVitis ,  Linda Irwin-DeVitis ,  Joseph L. DeVitis
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   62
Weight:   1.010kg
ISBN:  

9781433117886


ISBN 10:   1433117886
Pages:   446
Publication Date:   23 August 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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All too often colleges and universities go about forming and delivering their curricula without thinking deeply about what goes into them and what their overarching purposes are. Joseph L. DeVitis's thoughtful and beautifully crafted book asks the big questions: Why do we do what we do? What are students learning? How do we know what we are doing is working? This volume is essential reading for college presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, faculty members, and students who want to make a difference in their academic institutions. (Marybeth Gasman, Professor of Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania) Dr. DeVitis's book is replete with both practical advice and thought-provoking conceptual and theoretical discussions of curriculum in higher education. This volume makes a tremendous contribution to the understanding of how and why college and university curricula are created and recreated. In addition, readers are introduced to an array of distinctive and innovative curricula from U.S. institutions. They offer fascinating opportunities to explore the unique ways that academe has developed curricula toward specific aims. (Beth Rushing, Vice President for Academic Affairs andDean of Faculty, St. Mary's College of Maryland) Curriculum matters! This collection of essays explores a panoply of curricular approaches to undergraduate education. It highlights the vital importance of curriculum change through the lenses of distinctive initiatives in today's academic landscape. The book focuses on many key concerns: Core curriculum, civic education, multicultural education, service learning, and cooperative education, among others. It is also sensitive to the particularities of individual institutions. Joseph L. DeVitis understands and celebrates this while encouraging the rest of us to learn from assaying that diversity and picking out insights that might work for us. (Kenneth Waltzer, Professor of History, Former Dean of James Madison College. Former Director of Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University)


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Joseph L. DeVitis has taught at five universities in his 40-year academic career. Recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he is a past president of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), the Council of Learned Societies in Education, and the Society of Professors of Education. Author or editor of 15 books, he has written extensively on moral development, liberal education, collegiate service-learning, and educational reform. His most recent books are a series of notable readers for Peter Lang Publishing: Contemporary Colleges and Universities (2013); Critical Civic Literacy (2011); Character and Moral Education (2011), edited with Tianlong Yu; and Adolescent Education (2010), edited with Linda Irwin-DeVitis. The latter two books received Critics Choice Awards from AESA as outstanding books of the year.

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