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Heller, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
An Association of American Colleges report on the reform of general education offers advice to faculty and administrators for creating a campus environment in which students believe general education is more than a few required courses. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Curriculum, College Environment, College Students
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Segal, Gilda – Research in Science Education, 1997
Contrasts naive beliefs about the nature of science with science as it appears from sociological and philosophical study, feminist critique, and insights from multicultural education. Pragmatic school science is situated within a framework that questions how we know and the recognition that even high-status knowledge can be challenged. (AIM)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Questioning Techniques
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Ihsen, Susanne; Isenhardt, Ingrid; Steinhagen de Sanchez, Ute – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1998
In engineering education, creativity and communication processes have become necessary in complex structures such as technological networks and virtual reality. A new sociotechnical approach describes the engineering profession in aspects other than technology such as tasks, views, organization structures, and cooperation. Describes a…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Gass, J. R. – 1996
This paper examines the goals, architecture, and means of lifelong learning. The following are among the topics discussed: economic and social dimensions of the forces pushing Europe toward a learning society (investing in people; promoting employment in an era of structural change; making firms key partners in the learning society; overcoming the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Continuing Education, Economic Change