The amateur hour, a history of college teaching in America, Jonathan Zimmerman
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The amateur hour, a history of college teaching in America, Jonathan Zimmerman
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The amateur hour
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1140351350
Responsibility statement
Jonathan Zimmerman
Sub title
a history of college teaching in America
Summary
"This is the first book-length history of college teaching in America, which traditionally has been a matter of imitation for instructors rather than formal training. Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscript material, the book weaves together student, faculty, and administrative perspectives in a rich portrait of undergraduate classrooms across time. It also documents long-standing but largely unknown efforts to reform college instruction by making it more personal, especially at research institutions"--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Introduction : personality over bureaucracy : the paradox of college teaching in America -- Between the two ends of the log : teaching and learning in the nineteenth century -- Scholarship and its discontents : teaching and learning in the Progressive Era -- The curse of gigantism : mass-produced education and its critics in interwar America -- "Teaching made personal" : reform and its limits in interwar college teaching -- Expansion and repression : Cold War challenges for college teaching -- TV or not TV? : reforming Cold War teaching -- The university under attack : college teaching in the 1960s and 1970s -- Experimentation and improvement : reforming teaching in the 1960s and 1970s -- Epilogue : the decade of the undergraduate? : college teaching in the 1990s and beyond -- Appendix. Archives of college teaching
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