National Collegiate Honors Council
Date of this Version
2012
Citation
Published in Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Fall/Winter 2012, Volume 13, Number 2
Abstract
One of the factors that differentiate honors from regular teaching at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, is the freedom that honors students enjoy, a freedom that evokes excellence because it is focused and targeted. This targeted freedom takes three different shapes in our honors program and comes with specific challenges for both students and teachers. While the attractions and advantages of such freedom are both theoretically and practically significant, our experience has also demonstrated drawbacks that need to be addressed and resolved in creating effective honors education.
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