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Principles, Practices, and Creative Tensions in Progressive Higher Education

One Institution’s Struggle to Sustain a Vision

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Editors:
  1. Katherine Jelly
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  2. Alan Mandell
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  • This spirited, valuable edited volume uses the case of a public college for adults in the US to unravel key issues that permeate higher education today.
  • Is it possible, these 19 essays ask, to respond to the challenges and pressures universities face while sustaining nontraditional practices and a progressive vision?
  • These writings delve deeply and analytically into “creative tensions” at play and show us that amidst so much that is problematic and discouraging, there is hope for progressive higher education.

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Katherine Jelly, Alan Mandell
    Pages 1-25

  3. Underlying Principles, Ideas and Values: Perennial Questions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Empire State College and the Conflicted Legacy of Progressive Higher Education

      • Wayne Carr Willis
      Pages 29-42

    3. Conflict, Change, and Continuity

      • Richard F. Bonnabeau
      Pages 43-64

    4. John Dewey, Constructed Knowing, and Faculty Practice at Empire State College

      • Xenia Coulter
      Pages 65-90

  4. Student-Centered Pedagogy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Is the Authority in the Dialogue? A Memorandum

      • Lee Herman
      Pages 93-109

    3. Educational Planning at Empire State College

      • Susan Oaks
      Pages 111-132

    4. Interdisciplinary Education at Empire State College

      • Lorraine Lander
      Pages 133-147

    5. The Cipher and Empire

      • Himanee Gupta-Carlson
      Pages 149-163

  5. Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. “I Don’t Write, I Work”

      • Rebecca Fraser, Sophia Mavrogiannis
      Pages 167-181

    3. A Progressive Institution Takes on Academic Support, 21st Century Style

      • Seana Logsdon, Linda Guyette
      Pages 183-200

    4. On the Leading Edge

      • David Starr-Glass
      Pages 201-213

    5. Inherent Tensions Within the Practices of Prior Learning Assessment at Suny Empire State College

      • Nan Travers
      Pages 215-240

  6. Organizational Frameworks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-242
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    2. Organizational Complexity in a Progressive Educational Environment

      • Lynne M. Wiley
      Pages 243-254

    3. Technology Meets the Local

      • Chris Rounds
      Pages 255-272

    4. Family Feuds, Shotgun Weddings and a Dash of Couples Therapy

      • Sarah Hertz, Cathy Leaker, Rebecca Bonanno, Thalia Macmillan
      Pages 273-293
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About this book

In this multi-faceted case study of one progressive institution of adult higher education, the editors and contributors to the volume lay out significant challenges confronting not just non-traditional post-secondary colleges and universities but all institutions of higher education in today’s rapidly changing context. Contending that nontraditional institutions are especially challenged in these turbulent times, they argue that these organizations’ distinctive academic programs are among the most threatened in the landscape of higher education today. The 19 essays that make up this volume highlight and examine key creative tensions, rich interplays of emphases and values in higher education, in order to illuminate and address more intentionally the questions that we must address: Can we make constructive use of these tensions? Can we recognize what is at stake? And can we chart a course that will both respond innovatively to rapid change and sustain a vision and the purposes and principles on which that vision rests? Taken as a whole, this volume sheds light on the questions and creative tensions that can, with thoughtful attention, help to keep an alternative, progressive vision of adult higher education alive.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Principles, Practices, and Creative Tensions in Progressive Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: One Institution’s Struggle to Sustain a Vision

  • Editors: Katherine Jelly, Alan Mandell

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-884-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-884-6Published: 23 March 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CDXII, 10

  • Topics: Education, general

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