Mark Hopkins and the Log
Author : Frederick Rudolph
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 1996-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780915081035
Author : Frederick Rudolph
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 1996-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780915081035
Author : Frederick Rudolph
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 1956
Category : College presidents
ISBN :
Author : Louis Shores
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Elon Galusha Salisbury (W.C. 1874)
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 1927
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 1936-01
Category :
ISBN :
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Author : Frederick Rudolph
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 1956
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Allan Peskin
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873382106
This biography evaluates and examines James A. Garfield's military career, the congressional years and the Presidency. Allan Perkins has had access to the Garfield and other papers, as well as drawing upon other resources of the Reconstruction Era.
Author : Frederick Rudolph
Publisher :
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1956
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Business education
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Zimmerman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1421439107
The first full-length history of college teaching in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the ongoing tension between the modern scholarly ideal—scientific, objective, and dispassionate—and the inevitably subjective nature of day-to-day instruction. American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the past 150 years, as critics have denounced the poor quality of instruction in undergraduate classrooms. Students daydream in gigantic lecture halls while a professor drones on, or they meet with a teaching assistant for an hour of aimless discussion. The modern university does not reward teaching, so faculty members at every level neglect it in favor of research and publication. In the first book-length history of American college teaching, Jonathan Zimmerman confirms but also contradicts these perennial complaints. Drawing upon a wide range of previously unexamined sources, The Amateur Hour shows how generations of undergraduates indicted the weak instruction they received. But Zimmerman also chronicles institutional efforts to improve it, especially by making teaching more "personal." As higher education grew into a gigantic industry, he writes, American colleges and universities introduced small-group activities and other reforms designed to counter the anonymity of mass instruction. They also experimented with new technologies like television and computers, which promised to "personalize" teaching by tailoring it to the individual interests and abilities of each student. But, Zimmerman reveals, the emphasis on the personal inhibited the professionalization of college teaching, which remains, ultimately, an amateur enterprise. The more that Americans treated teaching as a highly personal endeavor, dependent on the idiosyncrasies of the instructor, the less they could develop shared standards for it. Nor have they rigorously documented college instruction, a highly public activity which has taken place mostly in private. Pushing open the classroom door, The Amateur Hour illuminates American college teaching and frames a fresh case for restoring intimate learning communities, especially for America's least privileged students. Anyone who wants to change college teaching will have to start here.