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"In this book, James E. Cote and Anton L. Allahar provide a frank account of the contemporary Canadian university, drawing on their own research and personal experiences as well as conversations with students, counsellors, professors, administrators, educational researchers, and policy-makers p...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Côté, James E.
Otros Autores: Allahar, Anton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Universities and colleges > Canada.
Education, Higher > Canada.
College teachers > Canada > Attitudes.
Students > Canada > Attitudes.
Universités > Canada.
Enseignement supérieur > Canada.
Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) > Canada > Attitudes.
Étudiants > Canada > Attitudes.
Étudiants > Évaluation > Canada.
EDUCATION > Secondary.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Students > Attitudes.
College teachers > Attitudes.
Education, Higher.
Universities and colleges.
Canada.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Canadaâ€?s World-Leading University System: Image versus Reality
  • Who Should Read This Book?
  • 1 Troubles in Paradise
  • The Disengaged Student
  • Higher Expectations, Lower Effort
  • Credentialism and Grade Inflation
  • Credentialism and Academic Disengagement
  • Roots of Student Disengagement
  • The New Functions of Higher Education
  • Sorting, Weeding, and Cooling
  • The Obsession with High Grades: Grade Inflation Up Close
  • Conclusion
  • 2 The Professor as Reluctant Gatekeeper
  • How the New Functions Have Affected the Interpersonal Dynamics of Teaching and Learning: Faculty DisengagementThe Growth of Education as a Business
  • Life in the Credential Mart
  • Deskilling of the Professoriate
  • The Cult of Self-esteem and Other Sources of the Sense of Entitlement
  • Learning to Live with Student Disengagement
  • Awareness of the Issues: Sliding Standards
  • Perceptions of Student Engagement: Institutionalized Indifference
  • The Downward Spiral: The New Normal
  • Job Satisfaction and Job Stress: Being Thick-Skinned
  • Student Evaluations: Necessary Evils?Sharing the Blame
  • Conclusion: Higher Education as a Big Business
  • 3 The Student as a Reluctant Intellectual
  • The Hazardous Passage to Adulthood
  • The Millennial Generation
  • The Gamut of Student Engagement
  • Voices of Disengagement
  • Student Empowerment
  • The Retreat of Faculty
  • Grade Inflation and the Democratization of Education
  • Education as a Commodity
  • Standards and Criteria
  • Edubusiness: University as Corporation
  • Conclusion: System Failure of Students
  • 4 Parents as Investors and Managers: The Bank of Mom and Dad (BMD)Education as an Investment
  • Setting the Right Goals
  • Estimating Costs
  • Baby Boomer Parents and the Experiences of Their Children
  • The Mini-Me and the Helicopter Parent
  • In Defence of the Helicopter Parent
  • How Parents Influence and Support Their Children
  • Aspirations
  • Finances: The Bottom Line
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Policy Implications: So What Is University Good For? What Is Added beyond Alternatives?
  • Credentialism Revisited: A Brief History
  • You Can Lead Them to Water, but ...
  • Grade Inflation Revisited: Underlying CausesThe Science of Grade Inflation and the Route to Reform
  • The University Graduate Revisited: What Is Added beyond Other Trajectories to the Workplace and Adulthood?
  • Show Me the Numbers: What Science Says about the High End of Benefits of Higher Education
  • Monetary Rates of Return
  • Looking beyond Statistical Averages: What Science Says about the Low End of the Benefits of the University Education
  • Underemployment Revisited
  • The Accessibility Issue

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