Celebrating Intellectual Curiosity

Celebrating Intellectual Curiosity: Kindergarten Through College Scholarship and Research broadens the perspective on academic pursuits, using vignettes and stories to establish the complexities and utility of varying forms of research. Criteria are identified that fit the respective approaches.

Michael Gose was a student at Mission Bay High School, Occidental College, Pepperdine University, Stanford University, and as such, he had the great good fortune of reading and discussing the classics. After a visit to campus by Mortimer Adler, Gose initiated a Great Books program at Pepperdine University, and has been teaching Great Books, and writing about Socratic pedagogy, for almost forty years.

Foreword Preface: Celebrating Intellectual Curiosity Introduction Chapter 1: The Importance and Context of All Scholarship and Research and a Microcosm of the Macrocosm Chapter 2: The Scholarship of Teaching Chapter 3: The Scholarship of Teaching-action research Chapter 4: Creative Art Chapter 5: Arts Based Research Chapter 6: The Scholarship of Service Chapter 7: Curriculum Development, Administration, Colleagueship Chapter 8: Scholarship of the Student Chapter 9: The Legacy and Ecology of Education Chapter 10: Establishing the Rationale and Grading Policies for Student Scholarship and Research Chapter 11: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished; Virtue is its Own Reward: warnings and encouragement Conclusion Appendix-The New Carnegie Unit Bibliography About the Author