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- Title
LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR GENERAL EDUCATION: THE ROLE OF FIRST-YEAR AND SHORT SEMINARS.
- Authors
Ishler, Jennifer L. Crissman
- Abstract
The article focuses on the role of first-year and short seminars in the curricular innovations and teaching strategies of general education. It involves a discussion about the current state of general education and the areas for reform, which represents the need for strengthening the curricular coherence through common types of general education experience and a lamentation by some authors on the specialized and vocational orientation of the undergraduate curricula. The seminar learning experiences encourage active learning and independent investigation with students to assume responsibility for their own intellectual development. However, it is inferred that such seminars have the potential to accomplish the same goals that are related to the development of the mind.
- Subjects
FIRST year experience programs; COLLEGE teaching; CONTINUING education; HIGHER education; ADULT education workshops; GENERAL education; HUMANISTIC education; EDUCATIONAL change; CURRICULUM change; CURRICULUM
- Publication
JGE: The Journal of General Education, 2003, Vol 52, Issue 2, p71
- ISSN
0021-3667
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jge.2003.0026