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Undergraduate Education is an examination of the field balanced by constructive proposals designed to clarify goals and achieve them. Chapters deal with the goals of achieving proficiencies (such as literacy, foreign languages, mathematics, and computers) and conversancies in certain disciplines (such as science, history, global awareness, and art) for all undergraduate students. The author also discusses the complex subject of the undergraduate major, the attainment of intellectual virtues (character traits), and how educators in the classroom, the institution at large, and noncurricular activities can contribute to achieving desired goals.
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About the Author
RUDOLPH H. WEINGARTNER is professor emeritus of philosophy, University of Pittsburgh. He is also former dean of arts and sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and former provost, University of Pittsburgh.
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He neither bashes the system nor advocates unchanged continuance. His intent is to stimulate discussion. Recommended for interested laypeople as well as education professionals and students. (Library Journal)
A 'must read' for faculty and administrators who really care about students...." "One of the most important workds to appear on the subject in many years. Wide ranging, reflective, courageous in identifying and challenging conventional and mythic thinking, it offers ideas worthy of serious consideration. In treating proficiencies, conversancies, and competencies as it does, it offers us a fresh way to conceive of and converse about the purposes of undergraduate instruction. In shifting the emphasis from coverage to understanding, it challenges deep-rooted, sometimes perverse, habits of thought. Its acceptance of the pluralistic characteristics of our society and system of higher education, and its populist assumptions, lend it heightened power to provoke us to think anew about what we wish to accomplish during the undergraduate years. instruction.. (Michele Tolela Myers, President, Sarah Lawrence College)
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- PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0897748077
- ISBN 13 9780897748070
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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