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The instruction myth : why higher education is hard to change, and how to change it /
Higher education is broken, and we haven't been able to fix it. Even in the face of great and growing dysfunction, it seems resistant to fundamental change. At this point, can anything be done to save it? The Instruction Myth argues that yes, higher education can be reformed and reinvigorated,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?
- 1. The Chronic Crisis
- 2. How Did It Get This Way?
- Part II: Why Is Change So Hard?
- 3. The Status Quo Bias
- 4. How the Status Quo Bias Defends Itself in Organizations
- 5. The Design of Colleges and the Myths of Quality
- 6. Framing the Faculty Role: Graduate School, Departments, and the Price of Change
- 7. The Myth of Unity and the Paradox of Effort
- 8. Faculty Expertise and the Myth of Teacher Professionalism
- 9. Trial Run: The Case of the Degree Qualifications Profile
- Part III: Learning to Change, Changing to Learn
- 10. Seeds of Change
- 11. How Do People Learn to Change?
- 12. Diffusing Innovation by Making Peer Groups
- 13. Promoting Innovation through Scholarly Teaching
- 14. The Teaching Inventory and Portfolio
- 15. The Outcomes Transcript and Portfolio
- 16. Changing the Faculty Endowment
- 17. Creating a Market for Education
- 18. Levers for Change: A New Accountability
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author