Notes

[1] A revised version of this paper appeared as, Mary Taylor Huber, "Why Now? Course Portfolios in Context," The Course Portfolio, Pat Hutchings, ed. (Washington: American Association for Higher Education, 1998), p. 29.

[2] Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, Understanding by Design, (Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998; Howard Gardner, The Unschoolded Mind: How children think and how schools should teach, (New York: Basic Books, 1991).

[3] Gardner, The Unschoolded Mind, p. 237.  The reader who consults Gardner will find that I have added my own commentary on the relevance of this advice to the survey course.