Principles, Practices, and Creative Tensions in Progressive Higher Education
One Institution's Struggle to Sustain a Vision
Published on 23. March 2017
CDXII, 10 pages
978-94-6300-884-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this multi-faceted case study of one progressive institution of adult higher education, the editors and contributors to the volume lay out significant challenges confronting not just non-traditional post-secondary colleges and universities but all institutions of higher education in today's rapidly changing context. Contending that nontraditional institutions are especially challenged in these turbulent times, they argue that these organizations' distinctive academic programs are among the most threatened in the landscape of higher education today.
The 19 essays that make up this volume highlight and examine key creative tensions, rich interplays of emphases and values in higher education, in order to illuminate and address more intentionally the questions that we must address: Can we make constructive use of these tensions? Can we recognize what is at stake? And can we chart a course that will both respond innovatively to rapid change and sustain a vision and the purposes and principles on which that vision rests? Taken as a whole, this volume sheds light on the questions and creative tensions that can, with thoughtful attention, help to keep an alternative, progressive vision of adult higher education alive.
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One Institution's Struggle to Sustain a Vision
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One Institution's Struggle to Sustain a Vision
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Content
Acknowledgements; Introduction: Creative Tensions in Progressive Higher Education: Theories and Practices in a Changing Context; Section I: Underlying Principles, Ideas and Values: Perennial Questions; Empire State College and the Conflicted Legacy of Progressive Higher Education; Conflict, Change, and Continuity: ESC's Goddard College and British Open University Connections; John Dewey, Constructed Knowing, and Faculty Practice at Empire State College; Section II: Student-Centered Pedagogy: The Mentoring Model and What It Has Meant; Is the Authority in the Dialogue? A Memorandum; Educational Planning at Empire State College: Fluidity vs. Structure, Process vs. Product; Interdisciplinary Education at Empire State College: Many Opportunities, Ongoing Challenges; The Cipher and Empire: Teaching and Mentoring through Hip-Hop; Section III: Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom: Our Students and the Programs and Procedures That Support Them; "I Don't Write, I Work": Writing and Reading with Trade Union Apprentices; A Progressive Institution Takes on Academic Support, 21st Century Style; On the Leading Edge: International Programs and Mentoring in Transnational Settings; Inherent Tensions within the Practices of Prior Learning Assessment at SUNY Empire State College; Section IV: Organizational Frameworks: Infrastructure, Culture, and Change; Organizational Complexity in a Progressive Educational Environment; Technology Meets the Local: One Mentor's Reflections on Autonomy and Connection in a Dispersed Institution; Family Feuds, Shotgun Weddings and a Dash of Couples Therapy: The Center for Distance Learning/Metropolitan Center Blended Learning Initiative; Growth and Its Discontents: Organizational Challenges to a Radical Vision; At a Crossroad: The Shifting Landscape of Graduate Education; Section V: Empire State College in a Broader Context: The Impacts of External Forces; Empire State College: Exceptionalism and Organizational Change in the SUNY System; Current Technologies and Their Uses at Empire State College: Benefits, Costs, and Possibilities; Implications of Emergent Content, Experimentation, and Resources for Outcomes Assessment at Empire State College; Afterword: Living the Questions to Sustain the Vision; About the Contributors; Index.
