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ERIC Number: EJ333303
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Exploring Values, Issues, and Controversies.
Cummings, Richard J.
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No.25 (Fostering Academic Excellence Through Honors Programs) p17-27 Mar 1986
An examination of the different ways in which the honors concept has been adapted from its elitist British university origins and of the assumptions underlying those adaptations reveals both the virtues and the problems inherent in the Americanization of honors. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Objectives, Experimental Curriculum, Higher Education, Honors Curriculum, Program Design, Student Role, Teacher Role
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Historical Materials
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Great Britain; United States