Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education
Edited by Robert Grover, Katherine O'Flaherty
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Publication date:
07 December 2016Length of book:
114 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781475831481
Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally agreed upon definitions of what honors is and what it might aspire to be in the future. This generates possibility and flexibility, while also creating rather serious challenges.
Many such challenges are structural: perpetual budgetary constraints, changing expectations about the role of high education and the “return” it ought to provide to the student, and the changing technological landscape of higher education and society more generally. The contributors here examine the structural challenges honors education currently faces and those forces it is likely to confront in the future, offering insights about how honors might respond creatively to these present and future challenges.
Many such challenges are structural: perpetual budgetary constraints, changing expectations about the role of high education and the “return” it ought to provide to the student, and the changing technological landscape of higher education and society more generally. The contributors here examine the structural challenges honors education currently faces and those forces it is likely to confront in the future, offering insights about how honors might respond creatively to these present and future challenges.
This volume underlines the beauty of honors education as a dynamic ongoing process. How worthy is this volume, offering the reader ideas of how honors education might stand out and persist in the face of larger structural dynamics in higher education. The authors present a hopeful and constructive vision for the future of honors education. This vision gives the volume coherence, with various innovative examples, especially in the domain of e-learning. Honors serves as an educational laboratory for teachers and a fun playground for students. The practical examples and the “Key Ideas” at the end of each chapter combined with various theories make this volume easy to use and nice to read. This volume can help educators and teachers create, manage, streamline and teach honors without comprising the quality of the experience.