College Made Whole: Integrative Learning for a Divided World
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
Categories: Books, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Education



Dimensions: 6 x 0.79 x 9 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1421432625
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421432625
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Print length: 240 pages
Publication date: September 24, 2019
author: Visit Amazon's Chris W. Gallagher Page search results Chris W. Gallagher
review: Editorial Reviews Review College Made Whole is a terrific rejoinder to many of the currently popular but ill-informed works advocating market-based reforms in higher education. The chapters are solid, coherent, and collectively advance the author's central argument in a logical and systematic way. I especially appreciate the way each chapter offers vignettes, analysis, recommendations for institutions, and suggestions for faculty. ―Charles Dorn, Bowdoin College, author of For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Gallagher offers a compelling defense of integrative liberal learning as the best preparation for developing students' capacities to grapple with the unscripted problems of the future. In the process, he provides action steps for promoting conceptual scaffolding and personalized lifelong learning, essential for both individual thriving and our nation's democracy. ―Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges & Universities College Made Whole presents a powerful argument and a concrete set of recommendations for ways that institutions of higher education can foster more adaptive, integrative learners. The trick? Becoming more adaptive, integrative institutions, connecting the knowledge they generate across fields and with the world beyond. I can think of no more important goal for colleges and universities today. ―Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Michigan State University, author of Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University The great unbundlers came for our colleges, and now Chris Gallagher has come for the unbundlers, patiently and thoroughly demolishing their view that students will be better served by an open marketplace of credential providers. In reality, education is too important and too complex to be unbundled. We need integration. We need to help students and the public see the ways we are all connected and benefit from robust and dynamic higher education institutions. This book is a necessary corrective to a wayward course. ―John Warner, author of Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities Review The great unbundlers came for our colleges, and now Chris Gallagher has come for the unbundlers, patiently and thoroughly demolishing their view that students will be better served by an open marketplace of credential providers. In reality, education is too important and too complex to be unbundled. We need integration. We need to help students and the public see the ways we are all connected and benefit from robust and dynamic higher education institutions. This book is a necessary corrective to a wayward course. -- John Warner Book Description How can universities shape creative, adaptive, integrated learners ready to confront the world? This book's clear-eyed optimism is a challenge to everyone in higher education. About the Author Chris W. Gallagher is the Vice Chancellor for Global Learning Opportunities and a professor of English at Northeastern University. He is the author of Reclaiming Assessment: A Better Alternative to the Accountability Agenda and the coauthor of Our Better Judgment: Teacher Leadership for Writing Assessment and Teaching Writing That Matters: Tools and Projects That Motivate Adolescent Writers . Read more