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The Quiet Crisis: How Higher Education Is Failing America
Peter Smith
ISBN: 978-1-882982-70-7
Hardcover
200 pages
May 2008
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Table of Contents
 
About the Author.

Preface.

Introduction.

Part One: The Quiet Crisis.

1. The Opportunity Promise.

2. Universities as Learning Organizations.

3. Breaking the Model: From Storied Tradition to Valued Position.

Part Two: The Emergence of a New Learning Ethos.

4. Lived Experience: The Root of Learning.

5. Personal Learning, Reflection, and Growth.

6. Diversity: The Tie That Binds.

7. From Wishes to Wireless.

Part Three: FutureThink.

8. A New Mainstream.

9. Quality in the Learning Age.

10. A Policy Framework for the 21st Century.

Bibliography.

Index.

 
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