{"product_id":"cultivating-inquirydriven-learners-9781421438481","title":"Cultivating InquiryDriven Learners","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can colleges develop learners who pursue innovative ideas that enable them to flourish and contribute in a rapidly changing world?Two decades into the twenty-first century, our nation's colleges and universities no longer embrace a clear and convincing definition of the purpose of a college education. Instead, most institutions have fallen prey to a default purpose in which college is essentially workforce preparation for jobs that already exist, while students are viewed as commodities instead of being educated to flourish throughout their lives. But rather than bemoan the diminishing legacy of liberal education, this new edition of Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners argues that the time has come to advance a pioneering purpose of college that guides the undergraduate experience from program requirements to teaching and learning.   This purpose, Clifton Conrad and Laura Dunek write, is anchored in the premise that the world in which we live is one in which changeenvironmental, cu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003ePart I. What Is the Purpose of a College Education? \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Contemporary Discourse on the Purpose of a College Education\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Transformative Change: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. A Rapidly Changing World Challenges Us to Rewrite Higher Education's Social Contract\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Heading toward Obsolescence: The Default Purpose of a College Education\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Becoming an Inquiry-Driven Learner \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Portrait of an Inquiry-Driven Learner\u003cbr\u003ePart IV. Fostering Inquiry-Driven Learners \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Ideas for Developing Inquiry-Driven Learners\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408138772823,"sku":"9781421438481","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421438481.jpg?v=1730501728","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultivating-inquirydriven-learners-9781421438481","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}