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Author | : Diane F. Halpern |
Publisher | : American Psychological Association (APA) |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Education |
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Examines what our students need to know to be psychologically literate citizens of the contemporary world, caring family members, and productive workers who can meet challenges. This work creates a fresh model for educating psychologically literate citizens.
Author | : National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Undergraduate Education |
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Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Engineering |
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Author | : Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler |
Publisher | : Council on Undergraduate Research |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0941933016 |
This cross-disciplinary volume incorporates diverse perspectives on mentoring undergraduate research, including work from scholars at many different types of academic institutions in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It strives to extend the conversation on mentoring undergraduate research to enable scholars in all disciplines and a variety of institutional contexts to critically examine mentoring practices and the role of mentored undergraduate research in higher education.
Author | : Peter Felten |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2020-11-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421439379 |
A mentor, advisor, or even a friend? Making connections in college makes all the difference. What single factor makes for an excellent college education? As it turns out, it's pretty simple: human relationships. Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive and only an option at elite institutions where instructors have the luxury of time with students. But in this revelatory book brimming with the voices of students, faculty, and staff from across the country, Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert argue that relationship-rich environments can and should exist for all students at all types of institutions. In Relationship-Rich Education, Felten and Lambert demonstrate that for relationships to be central in undergraduate education, colleges and universities do not require immense resources, privileged students, or specially qualified faculty and staff. All students learn best in an environment characterized by high expectation and high support, and all faculty and staff can learn to teach and work in ways that enable relationship-based education. Emphasizing the centrality of the classroom experience to fostering quality relationships, Felten and Lambert focus on students' influence in shaping the learning environment for their peers, as well as the key difference a single, well-timed conversation can make in a student's life. They also stress that relationship-rich education is particularly important for first-generation college students, who bring significant capacities to college but often face long-standing inequities and barriers to attaining their educational aspirations. Drawing on nearly 400 interviews with students, faculty, and staff at 29 higher education institutions across the country, Relationship-Rich Education provides readers with practical advice on how they can develop and sustain powerful relationship-based learning in their own contexts. Ultimately, the book is an invitation—and a challenge—for faculty, administrators, and student life staff to move relationships from the periphery to the center of undergraduate education.
Author | : William Moner |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2020-07-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421438216 |
Voelker, Scott Windham, Mary C. Wright, Catherine Zeek
Author | : Monica McLean |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2017-12-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1474214517 |
Globally, the appetite for higher education is great, but what do students and societies gain? Quality in Undergraduate Education foregrounds the importance of knowledge acquisition at university. Many argue that university education is no longer a public good due to the costs incurred by students who are then motivated by the promise of lucrative employment rather than by studying a discipline for its own sake. McLean, Abbas and Ashwin, however, reveal a more complex picture and offer a way of thinking about good quality university education for all. Drawing on a study which focused on four sociology-related social science UK university departments of different reputation, the book shows that students value sociological knowledge because it gives them a framework to think about and act on understanding how individuals and society interact. Further, the authors discuss how what was learned from the study about how policy, curriculum and pedagogy might preserve and strengthen the personal and social gains of social science undergraduate education.
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Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Engineering |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1999-04-25 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0309062942 |
Today's undergraduate studentsâ€"future leaders, policymakers, teachers, and citizens, as well as scientists and engineersâ€"will need to make important decisions based on their understanding of scientific and technological concepts. However, many undergraduates in the United States do not study science, mathematics, engineering, or technology (SME&T) for more than one year, if at all. Additionally, many of the SME&T courses that students take are focused on one discipline and often do not give students an understanding about how disciplines are interconnected or relevant to students' lives and society. To address these issues, the National Research Council convened a series of symposia and forums of representatives from SME&T educational and industrial communities. Those discussions contributed to this book, which provides six vision statements and recommendations for how to improve SME&T education for all undergraduates. The book addresses pre-college preparation for students in SME&T and the joint roles and responsibilities of faculty and administrators in arts and sciences and in schools of education to better educate teachers of K-12 mathematics, science, and technology. It suggests how colleges can improve and evaluate lower-division undergraduate courses for all students, strengthen institutional infrastructures to encourage quality teaching, and better prepare graduate students who will become future SME&T faculty.
Author | : Lutz K. Berkner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : College students |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Engineering |
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