Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners - A College Education for the Twenty-First Century

Inquiry-driven learners anticipate, embrace, and adapt to disruptive change. This title proposes college education that prepares students to be innovative and adaptable by developing four signature capabilities: core qualities of mind, critical thinking skills, expertise in divergent modes of inquiry, and capacity to express and communicate ideas.

About the author

Clifton Conrad is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Laura Dunek is a lawyer and a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Summary

Examples illustrate possibilities for developing inquiry-driven learners across the curriculum and are drawn from institutions with remarkably different missions and identities-from research universities to liberal arts colleges.

Product details

• Authors: Clifton Conrad, Clifton (Professor of Higher Education and Conrad, Clifton (Professor of Higher Education and Vilas Distinguished Service Professor Conrad, Clifton Dunek Conrad, Clifton/ Dunek Conrad, Laura Dunek, Laura (Special Assistant Dunek
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2012
• EAN: 9781421405995
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0599-5
• No. of pages: 152
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries