"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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Show more"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.
Lynnfred Smith is a new author who is fascinated with history and science fiction. In 2019, while working for a well-known airline, Lynnfred found himself drawn to write books because of significant present day events which affects our lives daily. He wrote the book Narratives: The Continuing Generational Pandemic in August 2020 to introduce the public to the Ma'riine 4 book series beginning with his new novel Ma'riine: Extinction Level Event 6 (The Medusa Syndrome).
Show moreIntroduction.
The Authors.
PART ONE: The Contemporary and Historical Context ofLearning
Communities.
1. Learning Communities and Undergraduate Education Reform.
2. Learning Community History: Education for What? Education
forWhom?
PART TWO: Learning Community Structures andPractices.
3. Learning Community Curricular Structures.
4. Core Practices in Learning Communities.
PART THREE: Rich Arenas for Reform.
5. General Education, the First Year of College, and
LearningCommunities.
6. Success for All: Learning Communities in Basic Skills andEnglish
as a Second Language Settings.
PART FOUR: Initiating and Strengthening LearningCommunities.
7. Information and Feedback: Using Assessment to Strengthen
andSustain Learning Communities.
8. Recruiting and Supporting Learning Community Teachers.
9. Initiating and Sustaining Learning Communities.
PART FIVE: Conclusion.
10. The Future of Learning Communities.
References.
Notes.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
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.
"... the authors provide a lucid and comprehensive
overview."(Authors Journal Compilation, Winter 2007)
"...is a superb resource of ideas and experiences worthy ofbeing
examined at length." (The Midwest Book Review)"Every college
teacher should read this comprehensive andinsightful analysis of
one of the most important pedagogicalmovements in contemporary
higher education."
--Alexander W. Astin, Allan M. Carter Professor of HigherEducation,
University of California, Los Angeles
"An essential resource for anyone interested in learningcommunities
by the leaders in the field. Framed by years ofexperience, the
authors provide invaluable insights into how onebegins, sustains,
and improves learning communities on both two-and four-year
campuses. A must-read."
--Vincent Tinto, distinguished university professor and
chair,Higher Education Program, Syracuse University
"Conceptual and practical, comprehensive and illustrative.This
magnificent volume proves the learning communities movementhas come
of age."
--Peter Ewell, vice president, National Center for Higher
EducationManagement Systems (NCHEMS)
"This book contains a wealth of information, not onlyabout learning
communities, but about the efforts of highereducation to improve
learning through actively engaging students inthe process."
--K. Patricia Cross, professor of higher education,
emerita,University of California, Berkeley
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