Curriculum by Design: Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core (1)

Synopsis

This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators, faculty, and students to view liberal arts education as an ongoing process of innovation. It aims to provide insight into what they did and why they did it and to provide a candid account of what has worked and what has not worked. Although all institutions are different, they believe their experiences can provide guidance to others who want to change their general education curriculum or who are being asked to teach core or general education courses in new ways.The book also includes short essays by a number of faculty colleagues who have been teaching in BC’s new innovative core courses, providing practical advice about the challenges of trying interdisciplinary teaching, team teaching, project-or problem-based learning, intentional reflection, and other new structures and pedagogies for the first time. It will also address some of the nuts and bolts issues they have encountered when trying to create structures to make curriculum change sustainable over time and to foster ongoing innovation.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

272 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781531501341

Related ISBNs:

9781531501327, 9781531501334

Publisher:

Fordham University Press

Date of Addition:

06/18/25

Copyrighted By:

June M. Jordan Literary Estate Trust. Used by permission.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Education, Social Studies

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Mary Thomas Crane

Edited by:

David Quigley

Edited by:

Andy Boynton