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Advancing Honors Education for Today and Tomorrow

Edited By: Graeme Harper

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What does it mean for education to be ‘advanced’? In depth, focus, or application? Honors education has long reflected on what ‘advanced’ higher education might entail. Here, contributors consider the significant interests in the present and future of advanced learning.

Higher education, further education, vocational education and continuing education all refer to progression to a third educational step. That is, a step beyond secondary education,…

Higher education, further education, vocational education and continuing education all refer to progression to a third educational step. That is, a step beyond secondary education, which itself is a step beyond elementary or primary education. While optional, continuing beyond secondary education most often suggests some form of need ‘to acquire advanced knowledge’. But advanced in what way? Advanced in focus? Advanced in depth? Advanced in application? Advanced in the range of knowledge of those who teach in it? Advanced in expectation? Honors education, which is present globally and is highlighted in the United States through a distinctive 100-year history, has reflected on, and continues to reflect on what ‘advanced’ higher education might entail. Consequently, here in Advancing Honors Education for Today and Tomorrow contributors consider some of the interests that strike them as significant in the present and future of advanced learning.

Graeme Harper’s previous works include Honors Education Around the World (2022), Honors Education and the Foundation of Fairness (2021) and Honors Education: Excellence, Innovation, Ingenuity (2019). He has worked in higher education in the United Kingdom, Australia and the USA. He is immediate past chair of the At-Large Division of the US Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) and he leads the National Society for Minorities in Honors (NSFMIH). Formerly a Director of Research in the UK, he was also a member of the Panel of Experts at the European Commission’s DGX (Education and Culture) and a panellist at the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). An award-winning fiction writer, publishing as Brooke Biaz, his latest work of fiction is the novel Releasing the Animals (Parlor, 2023).

Anne Jackson, Brooke Biaz, Galit Gertsenzon, Mike Piero, Siobhán Ní Dhonacha, Susan Lynne Beckwith, Tara Tuttle, Tom Ue