Bibliography on General Education Reform for PLU:
Useful Readings on Higher Education and the General Education Curriculum
Boyer, Ernest L. & Levine, Arthur. A Quest for Common Learning: The aims of General Education. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1981.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Campus Life: In Search of Community. Princeton, N.J.: The Foundation, 1990.
Gaff, Jerry G., Ratcliff, James L., & Associates. Handbook of the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Comprehensive Guide to Purposes, Structures, Practices, and Change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Greater
Expectations National Panel. Greater Expectations: A New Vision for
Learning as a Nation Goes to College.
Washington, D.C.: AAC&U, 2002.
Richard Hofstadter. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. New York: Vintage Books, 1963.
Kimball, Bruce. Orators & Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1986.
Kimball, Bruce. The "True Professional Ideal" in America. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
McMillin, Linda & Berberet, Jerry, Ed. A New Academic Compact: Revisioning the Relationship Between Faculty and their Institutions. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing, 2002.
O'Meara, KerryAnn & Rice, Eugene R., Ed. Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
Rice, R.
Eugene. Making a Place for the New
American Scholar. Washington, D.C.:
American Association for Higher Education, 1996.
Rothblatt, Sheldon. The Modern University and its Discontents: The Fate of Newman’s Legacies in Britain and America. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Rudolph, Frederick. Curriculum: A History of the American Course of Study since 1636. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1977.
Tagg, John. Learning Paradigm College. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing, 2003.
A Useful Definition
of General Education
In the AAC booklet, A New Vitality in General Education, the
following definition is provided: “We
define general education as the cultivation of the knowledge, skills, and
attitudes that all of us use and live by during most of our lives-- whether as
parents, citizens, lovers, travelers, participants in the arts, leaders,
volunteers, or good Samaritans."