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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785696403321

Autore

Arthur Mikaila Lemonik

Titolo

Student activism and curricular change in higher education / / Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-4094-9289-3

1-317-04897-0

1-317-04896-2

1-315-61112-0

1-282-96335-X

9786612963353

1-4094-0935-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Mobilization series on social movements, protest, and culture

Disciplina

378.1990973

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - Curricula - United States

Curriculum change - United States

Student movements - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The promise (and the threat) of curricular change -- Interdisciplinary studies in context -- A place to become women -- Our work is never done -- Reaching for tomorrow -- Fighting the good fight -- Fanning the flames of knowledge -- Understanding human experience -- Moving curricular change -- Curricular change and collective action.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on in-depth case-studies of curricular change processes at six colleges and universities across the United States, the book demonstrates that social movements targeting colleges and universities play a major role in curricular change and sets forwar