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Sustaining and Improving Learning Communitiesreviewed by Schevaletta M. Alford - 2005 Title: Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities Author(s): Jodi Levine Laufgraben and Nancy S. Shapiro Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco ISBN: 0787960543, Pages: 186, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Sustaining
and Improving Learning Communities is a "must have" for academics--faculty and
administrators--who are interested in moving established learning
communities to higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness. In
the preface the authors Jodi Levine Laufgraben, Nancy S. Shapiro
and Associates explain that their book is for "… campus
leaders who recognize the value of learning communities in
transforming the undergraduate experience" (p. xv). This book is
not only for transforming the experiences of undergraduates, it is
also for changing the experiences of faculty. The transformation is
based on the implementation of an organizational structure for the
delivery of knowledge. These changes create "curricular
coherence" which culminates in a deeper learning by the students
and a stronger sense of community among students and
faculty.
Within the
title, Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities, there
is the implication that the book is directed solely towards the
continuation and improvement of established learning communities.
The book also provides a detailed explanation of how community
organizers might more efficiently restructure their programs to
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- Schevaletta Alford
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York E-mail Author SCHEVALETTA ALFORD is an associate professor and the Director/Chair of the SEEK Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Schevaletta's research interest is student development and retention initiatives. Schevaletta is currently examining the leeway for experimentation that exists in opportunity programs. It is a national trend that many innovations resulting from work done in these programs becomes incorporated into the mainstream college and university programs.
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