Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners: A College Education for the Twenty-First Century

by Clifton Conrad and Laura Dunek

Book Overview

Inquiry-driven learners anticipate, embrace, and adapt to disruptive change. Clifton Conrad and Laura Dunek advance a transformative purpose of a college education. They invite stakeholders from across higher education to engage in vigorous dialogue about the aims of a college education--and how to realize those aims.

Increasingly influenced by market forces, many universities employ a default purpose of a college education: preparing students...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421405997
• ISBN13: 9781421405995
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"