A new agenda for higher education; shaping a life of the mind for practice.9780470257579 A new agenda for higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. ; shaping a life of the mind for practice. Sullivan, William M. and Matthew S Matthew one of the twelve disciples. [N.T.: Matthew] See : Evangelism . Rosin. John Wiley John Wiley may refer to:
2008 242 pages $38.00 Hardcover The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series LB2322 Sullivan is with the Carnegie Foundation's Preparation for the Professions Program; now an independent educational policy researcher, Rosin is a past Carnegie Foundation
The Carnegie Foundation ("Carnegie Stichting" in Dutch) is an organization based in The Hague, The Netherlands. research scholar. They offer a new conception of educational purpose based on higher education's utility for enhancing both the practical and the intellectual dimensions of life. The text presents case studies of educators from six professional fields and faculty from the liberal arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. and sciences who work to educate their students for practical responsibility, and then documents what happened when these teachers gathered at the Carnegie Foundation's "Life of the Mind for Practice" seminar to explore how higher education might prepare students for lives of engagement and responsibility. The authors then offer faculty and administrators practical suggestions on how to put the resulting insights to work in their own academic contexts. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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