Education 2

Discuss higher education from the years only 1944 through 1969. Discuss policy changes and how they affected higher education. Some items to be included are:

the implementation of the GI Bill 

The Harvard Report of 1945

Brown V Board of Education

Truman Commission on Community Colleges

Higher Education Act of 1965

How did these events affect changes in Higher Education?

Evaluate changes in higher education curricular and co-curricular planning in relation to philosophical trends.

a. Describe the philosophical trends of your time period that are relevant to higher education.

b. Contextualize the curricular and instructional changes that occurred due to these trends.

i. How are curriculum and instruction reciprocal?

ii. How did the trends directly lead to curriculum and instruction changes?

iii. How were curriculum and instruction changes a direct result of the trends?

c. Analyze how these changes impacted America’s concept of higher education.

Analyze the development of higher education models.

a. Describe the model(s) relevant to your time period.

b. Describe the social and historical influences that created the model(s).

c. Determine the efficacy of the model(s) in relation to the perceived needs of the time period.