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A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice
A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice
William M. Sullivan, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Matthew S Rosin
Lee S. Shulman
Gary D. Fenstermacher
ISBN: 978-0-470-25757-9
©2008
272 pages
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A Life of the Mind for Practice proposes a new model of undergraduate teaching, focused on the interdependence of liberal education and professional training. This book shows how both liberal arts educators and educators of professionals can provide their students with access to the actual practices as well as the purposes of their professions. It offers faculty a powerful set of examples of teachers who are working to sustain a broader vision of practical reasoning and public responsibility in their respective disciplines and in the lives of their students. This book was a result of a CFAT seminar that brought together educators from six professional fields (engineering, teacher education, religious studies, law, human biology, and medicine) with faculty from the liberal arts and sciences,  

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