A Brief History of General Education

Autor/in	O'Banion, Terry
Titel	A Brief History of General Education
Quelle	In: Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 40 (2016) 4, S.327-334 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-8926
DOI	10.1080/10668926.2015.1117996
Schlagwörter	Educational History; General Education; Community Colleges; Remedial Instruction; Educational Change; Educational Objectives; Curriculum Design; Student Needs; College Curriculum; Educational Trends; Education Work Relationship; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Community college; Community College; Förderkurs; Bildungsreform; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Lehrplangestaltung; Bildungsentwicklung
Abstract	In the 1960s, general education was at the forefront of innovative programs in American community colleges. Every community college designed a program of a common core of courses for the common person. General education was so popular it was included as one of the required components of a comprehensive community college along with university transfer, vocational and occupational programs, remedial education, and community service programs. By the 1980s, the common core idea began to fracture, and faculty began to add so many courses to meet general education requirements that today Thomas Bailey and his colleagues at the Community College Research Center cite the cafeteria-style, self-service model as one of the key issues keeping the Completion Agenda from reaching its goals. Whereas in the 1960s, students were required to take one comprehensive course in the humanities; students today choose from among 60 or more courses to meet the humanities requirement. In current student success reform efforts to increase retention and completion rates, the curriculum has pretty much been ignored. But leaders in a handful of community colleges are beginning to realize the unintended consequences of too many courses and too many choices, and they are beginning to appoint faculty committees to explore and redesign general education programs to better serve the needs of today's students. Few faculty leaders and administrators are familiar with the history and philosophy of general education, and this brief history will be helpful in their work as they design the next generation of these programs. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01