Monday, 14. June 2010
- ISBN13: 9780787985554
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Shaping the College Curriculum focuses on curriculum development as an important decision-making process in colleges and universities. The authors define curriculum as an academic plan developed in a historical, social, and political context. They identify eight curricular elements that are addressed, intentionally or unintentionally, in developing all college courses and programs. By exploring the interaction of these elements in context they use the academic plan model to clarify the processes of course and program planning, enabling instructors and administrators to ask crucial questions about improving teaching and optimizing student learning.
This revised edition continues to stress research-based educational practices. The new edition consolidates and focuses discussion of institutional and sociocultural factors that influence curricular decisions. All chapters have been updated with recent research findings relevant to curriculum leadership, accreditation, assessment, and the influence of academic fields, while two new chapters focus directly on learning research and its implications for instructional practice. A new chapter drawn from research on organizational change provides practical guidance to assist faculty members and administrators who are engaged in extensive program improvements. Streamlined yet still comprehensive and detailed, this revised volume will continue to serve as an invaluable resource for individuals and groups whose work includes planning, designing, delivering, evaluating, and studying curricula in higher education.
“This is an extraordinary book that offers not a particular curriculum or structure, but a comprehensive approach for thinking about the curriculum, ensuring that important considerations are not overlooked in its revision or development, and increasing the likelihood that students will learn and develop in ways institutions hope they will. The book brings coherence and intention to what is typically an unstructured, haphazard, and only partially rational process guided more by beliefs than by empirically grounded, substantive information. Lattuca and Stark present their material in ways that are accessible and applicable across planning levels (course, program, department, and institution), local settings, and academic disciplines. It’s an admirable and informative marriage of scholarship and practice, and an insightful guide to both. Anyone who cares seriously about how we can make our colleges and universities more educationally effective should read this book.”
—Patrick T. Terenzini, distinguished professor and senior scientist, Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University
Shaping the College Curriculum: Academic Plans in Context
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Friday, 19. February 2010
As you are aware there can be several types of student loan consolidation for you. Broadly however there can be two categories. These are Federal Student Loan Consolidation Plan and Private Student Loan Consolidation plan for you. Consolidation is made applicable to both types of loans. Stafford loans, private and federal, subsidized or not are prime subjects for such student loan consolidation. You can also consolidate the HEAL, HPSL and Parent PLUS loans availed. The PLUS loan includes the federal direct loans, consolidation loans, and direct loans. Other loans that could be consolidated are Perkins Loans and Nursing Schools Loans.About the federal and private loan consolidation processesFederal loans as well as the direct consolidated loans cannot be consolidated once again without obtaining or including additional loans. If you have already effected the student loan consolidation in respect of your undergraduate loans you can also add the graduation loans at later dates. Since these are additional loans such loan consolidation shall be permissible. You may also like to consolidate the private loans you had obtained as student. Never ever try to consolidate federal with private loans that results in private consolidated student loans. Such consolidation will deprive you of many benefits you could obtain with federal loan consolidation process. Drawbacks of consolidating federal with private loansSeveral drawbacks occur when you try to consolidate federal loans with the private loans. Some of them are –• With federal loan consolidation you can defer payments if you wish to resume your academic career. No such facilities are available under private loan consolidation plans.• Forbearance despite all economic hardship is not possible in case of private loan consolidation though permissible in case of federal loan consolidation. • No income tax deductions as in case of the federal loan consolidation interests are available in private consolidation plans. • You have chances to be forgiven in case of federal loan consolidation that is not permissible under private loan consolidation plans. • Like federal loan consolidation the military services, working as trainer in the economic development zones etc may not render you for any relaxation under private plans. • Private loans do not die a natural death in case of your untimely demise. Your heirs and successors in interests would be responsible for repayment. • Private loan consolidation rates are variable while the federal loan rates are firm and often better. Federal student loan consolidation should be your first priorityIf you are going for college loan consolidation your best bet would be to consolidate your federal loans first. The federal loan consolidation carries the best student loan consolidation rate and will be highly beneficial in financial terms compared to the private loan consolidations. Once you carry out your federal loan consolidation successfully it will boost your credit rating. In result you will become eligible for much better terms and conditions going for the private loan consolidation at a later stage.
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