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Alive At The Core: Exemplary Approaches To General Education In The Humanities
Editor: Nelson, Michael
Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series; Hardback; Book
416 pages
Published: April 2000
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 0787947601

Thirteen original chapters yield several creative approaches to teaching undergraduates the common values, customs, and beliefs which connect the threads of human civilization throughout time. Each chapter focuses on one distinctive college or university core curriculum, detailing the specific humanities-driven strategies used to develop and challenge students intellectually. Most of these programs emphasize cross-disciplinary learning, which makes this book especially timely in an era striving to redefine competence as breadth of knowledge and critical thinking skills.Alive atthe Core sharply illuminates the ways in which the academy can use the humanities to explore the real world, enabling campuses of all types to vivify and revitalize their general education curricula.Contributes to the national debate on humanities education and explains what higher education must do to encourage greater breadth of knowledge, improved critical skills, and lifelong competence in its undergraduate students. Offers different approaches for changing the core curriculum, based on rea


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