{"product_id":"continuity-and-innovation-in-honors-college-curricula-9781475829938","title":"Continuity and Innovation in Honors College","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContinuity 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword 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","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040223986007,"sku":"9781475829938","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475829938.jpg?v=1750946084","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/continuity-and-innovation-in-honors-college-curricula-9781475829938","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}