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Book SynopsisContinuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally agreed upon definitions of what honors is and what it might aspire to be in the future. This generates possibility and flexibility, while also creating rather serious challenges. This book examines dynamic attempts to think creatively about curriculum, a hallmark of honors in higher education. The authors document and discuss innovative attempts ranging from service-learning to international education to innovative ways to blend disciplinary models of pedagogy with honors teaching. Throughout, their investigations are grounded in the present while turning a keen
Table of ContentsForeword James C. McKusick, University of Missouri, Kansas City Chapter 1: Introduction: Curriculum at a Crossroads Robert W. Glover, University of Maine Katherine M. O’Flaherty, Arizona State University Chapter 2: Innovative Methods in Community Engagement for Honors Cecile Houry, Florida International University Chapter 3: Praxis Labs: Theory + Action as a Foundation of a Modern Honors Education Sylvia Torti, University of Utah Martha Bradley-Evans, University of Utah Chapter 4: The “College” as an Emergent Global Form: One Experience at Starting a Transnational College-to-College Relationship Catelijne Coopmans, Tembusu College, National University of Singapore Gregory Clancey, Tembusu College, National University of Singapore François G. Amar, Honors College, University of Maine Chapter 5: The Playful Curriculum: Differentiating Honors Education Through the use of Simulation as a Scaffold for Open-ended Course Design Abby Loebenberg, Arizona State University Chapter 6: Up the Hill Backwards: Meeting the Challenges of Creating a Humanities Lab Sarah Harlan-Haughey, University of Maine About the Editors and Authors Index
