{"product_id":"college-made-whole-chris-w-gallagher-9781421432625","title":"College Made Whole: Integrative Learning for a Divided World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow can universities shape creative, adaptive, integrated learners ready to confront the world? This book's clear-eyed optimism is a challenge to everyone in higher education.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican higher education is being torn apart. Institutions, curricula, courses, and faculty roles are being \"unbundled\"--broken into constituent parts in the name of efficiency and cost savings. As a result, the college learning experience is fragmented and incoherent, leaving graduates less and less equipped to confront the dire social problems that cause those divisions in the first place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCollege Made Whole\u003c\/i\u003e, Chris W. Gallagher lays bare the dangers of the dis-integration of the college experience and shows how we can put higher education back together again. The successful colleges and universities of the future, Gallagher argues, will be integrated: coherently and cohesively designed to help students achieve a lifelong learning experience that is more than the sum of its parts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePushing back against pernicious dichotomies that frame much discussion of US higher education, Gallagher critiques many of the hottest educational trends, including the overhyping of technological \"solutions,\" rampant adjunctification, the promotion of nondegree credentials as a suitable replacement for college degrees, and the increasingly narrow focus on the vocational aims of a college education. Ivestigating the purposes of higher education historically and today, he suggests audacious proposals to enhance learning, including reorganizing institutions, reordering institutional priorities, redesigning curricula and courses, and rethinking edtech and learning technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucidly written and packed with practical recommendations and real student stories, \u003ci\u003eCollege Made Whole\u003c\/i\u003e will challenge higher education professionals and policy makers, as well as anyone with a stake in the future of US higher education--which is to say, all of us who inhabit this fragile planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris W. Gallagher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421432625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421432625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Chris W. Gallagher","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48442228637951,"sku":"9781421432625","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_46b7d006-08b1-4b8a-afca-f1dc037226e3.jpg?v=1777195971","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/college-made-whole-chris-w-gallagher-9781421432625","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}