The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux - Hardcover

Davidson, Cathy N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465079725 ISBN 13: 9780465079728

Publisher: Basic Books, 2017

Synopsis

A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past--and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change
Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, all in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T.

As Cathy N. Davidson argues in The New Education, this approach to education is wholly unsuited to the era of the gig economy. From the Ivy League to community colleges, she introduces us to innovators who are remaking college for our own time by emphasizing student-centered learning that values creativity in the face of change above all. The New Education ultimately shows how we can teach students not only to survive but to thrive amid the challenges to come.

About this title

From the Author:

Here is the dedication to THE NEW EDUCATION:   "This book is dedicated to Millennials and to all future generations.  You deserve a better chance than you've been given.  And to parents, professors, pundits, policymakers, and presidents who can work to change higher education before it's too late."    That describes my motivation for writing this book. 

We must all work for change, we must fight for higher education and we must fight to change higher education.  The depressing part:  how much we have defunded higher education, with the result that now half of all courses are taught by part-time adjunct professors (often at less than minimum wage) and our students are graduating with high tuition debt.  The encouraging part: so many educators and institutions out there are working, together with students and parents, to turn this around. 

After three decades in higher education--teaching at community colleges, in a prison, in a monastery, in four countries, in the Ivy League, atDuke University (where I was also in the central administrationdirecting innovation for eight years) and now at the nation's largestpublic, urban university (CUNY), I believe more than ever that highereducation needs change.  THE NEW EDUCATION charts how we got here and profiles educators who are leading the way in helping us to a better place.

About the Author:

Cathy N. Davidson directs the Futures Initiative at CUNY. She is the author of many books, including Now You See It, and has written for the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company, among others. Davidson lives in New York, NY.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0465079725
• ISBN 13: 9780465079728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336