Product Description: In A New Agenda for Higher Education, the authors endorse higher education???s utility for enhancing the practical as well as intellectual dimensions of life by developing a third, different conception of educational purpose. Based on The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching seminar that brought together educators from six professional fields with faculty from the liberal arts and sciences, A New Agenda for Higher Education proposes an educational aim of ???practical reason,??? focusing on the interdependence of liberal education and professional training...read more

Product Description: This popular text continues using the format of the three approaches--The Executive, The Facilitator, and The Liberationist. For the Fifth Edition, the authors add four new case studies: ''Scripted Teaching,'' ''Accountability and Merit,'' ''What is the Value of Caring Relationships?'' and ''School Funding...read more

Product Description: From the AgAnda for Education in a Democracy SeriesSponsored by the National Network for Educational RenewalIntroduction by John I. GoodladThis volume from the AgAnda for Education in a Democracy series introduces the four-part mission that guides the National Network for Educational Renewal's agAnda:Enculturate the young in a democracy* Ensure access to knowledge for all students* Provide caring and effective pedagogyExercise responsible stewardship of schoolsUsing real-life case examples from an innovative national leadership program and its local and regional affiliates, the authors demonstrate why effective leadership is essential to advancing this vital agAnda and how leadership capacity and commitment can be cultivated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)