Reinventing the University: From Institutions to Communities of Higher Education |
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Authors: | Diane M Lee |
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Institution: | (1) Vice Provost for Student Academic Affairs, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Provost Office, Baltimore, Maryland, 21250 |
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Abstract: | This article responds to three questions: What if the primary mission of the university is to (i) nourish the intellect, (ii) commit to the sacredness of all life, and (iii) foster spirituality? Responses examine multiple forms of literacy, instruction that is ecologically valid and thus oriented toward the unity of knowledge, and teaching as a moral activity. The suggestion here is that meaningful reform will emphasize education of the whole person in relation to the physical, symbolic, and social environments. Curricula focused on forms of representation, modes of treatment, and syntactic structure, adaptive understandings, constructed meanings, critical thinking, real problems, connected knowing, creativity, inspiration, service learning, and the development of declarative procedural and poetic knowledge are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Multiple literacies spirituality environmental stewardship higher education reform |
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