Learning Communities: Reforming Undergraduate Education - Couverture rigide

Smith, Barbara Leigh; MacGregor, Jean; Matthews, Roberta; Gabelnick, Faith

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0787910368 ISBN 13 : 9780787910365

Editeur : Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 2004

Synopsis

Learning Communities is a groundbreaking book that shows how learning communities (LCs) can be a flexible and effective approach to enhancing student learning, promoting curricular coherence, and revitalizing faculty. Written by Barbara Leigh Smith, Jean MacGregor, Roberta S. Matthews, and Faith Gabelnick3/4acclaimed national leaders in the learning communities movement3/4this important book provides the historical, conceptual, and philosophical context for LCs and clearly demonstrates that they can be a key element in institutional transformation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Barbara Leigh Smith is a Senior Scholar at the Washington Centerfor Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, an emeritusmember of the faculty, and former provost and vice president foracademic affairs at The Evergreen State College. Smith and JeanMacGregor are founders of the Washington Center for Improving theQuality of Undergraduate Education which has led learning communitydevelopment for twenty years.

Jean MacGregor is a Senior Scholar at the Washington Center forImproving the Quality of Undergraduate Education and teaches in themaster of environmental studies program at The Evergreen StateCollege.

Roberta S. Matthews is provost and vice president for academicaffairs and professor of English at Brooklyn College.

Faith Gabelnick was president emerita of Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, and president of Gabelnick ConsultingInstitute.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0787910368
• ISBN 13: 9780787910365
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible