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Creating an integrative general education: The Bates experience
Author(s) -
Reich Jill,
Head Judy
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.389
Subject(s) - bates , curriculum , general education , work (physics) , pedagogy , sociology , higher education , engineering ethics , curriculum development , mathematics education , psychology , political science , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , aerospace engineering
A college education has never been so necessary, or so expensive. It is incumbent upon us, the educators, to do it the best we can. The products of our work are not the buildings on our campuses but our students who go out into this complicated and exciting world to serve as its leaders, its citizens, and its workers. The Bates College general education curriculum is used in this chapter to articulate the importance of several integrative goals and processes that make up our new general education curriculum.