Learning Communities: Reforming Undergraduate Education

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Wiley, Sep 8, 2004 - Education - 400 pages
Learning Communities is a groundbreaking book that shows how learning communities (LCs) can be a flexible and effective approach to enhancing student learning, promoting curricular coherence, and revitalizing faculty. Written by Barbara Leigh Smith, Jean MacGregor, Roberta S. Matthews, and Faith Gabelnick3⁄4acclaimed national leaders in the learning communities movement3⁄4this important book provides the historical, conceptual, and philosophical context for LCs and clearly demonstrates that they can be a key element in institutional transformation.

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Education for What?
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Core Practices in Learning Communities
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Barbara Leigh Smith is a Senior Scholar at the Washington Centerfor Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, an emeritusmember of the faculty, and former provost and vice president foracademic affairs at The Evergreen State College. Smith and JeanMacGregor are founders of the Washington Center for Improving theQuality of Undergraduate Education which has led learning communitydevelopment for twenty years. Jean MacGregor is a Senior Scholar at the Washington Center forImproving the Quality of Undergraduate Education and teaches in themaster of environmental studies program at The Evergreen StateCollege. Roberta S. Matthews is provost and vice president for academicaffairs and professor of English at Brooklyn College. Faith Gabelnick was president emerita of Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, and president of Gabelnick ConsultingInstitute.

Bibliographic information

TitleLearning Communities: Reforming Undergraduate Education
Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
AuthorBarbara Leigh Smith
Editionillustrated
PublisherWiley, 2004
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedOct 31, 2008
ISBN0787910368, 9780787910365
Length400 pages
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Education / General
Education / Learning Styles
Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Education / Schools / Levels / Higher
  
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