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The amateur hour : a history of college teaching in America / / Jonathan Zimmerman



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Autore: Zimmerman Jonathan <1961-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The amateur hour : a history of college teaching in America / / Jonathan Zimmerman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 378.1250973
Soggetto topico: College teaching - United States - History
Education, Higher - United States - History
Learning and scholarship - United States - History
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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 Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscript material, the book weaves together student, faculty, and administrative perspectives in a rich portrait of undergraduate classrooms across time.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"--
Titolo autorizzato: The amateur hour  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4214-3909-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822571603321
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