02733nam 2200445 450 991079562250332120240102235737.01-4214-3909-3(MiAaPQ)EBC6340218(CKB)5590000000001773(EXLCZ)99559000000000177320210204d2020 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe amateur hour a history of college teaching in America /Jonathan ZimmermanBaltimore, Maryland :Johns Hopkins University Press,[2020]©20201 online resource1-4214-3910-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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 Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscript material, the book weaves together student, faculty, and administrative perspectives in a rich portrait of undergraduate classrooms across time.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.College teachingUnited StatesHistoryEducation, HigherUnited StatesHistoryLearning and scholarshipUnited StatesHistoryCollege teachingHistory.Education, HigherHistory.Learning and scholarshipHistory.378.1250973Zimmerman Jonathan1961-1483176MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795622503321The amateur hour3784001UNINA