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

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"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 Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscript material, the book weaves together student, faculty, and administrative perspectives...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zimmerman, Jonathan, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
College teaching > United States > History.
Education, Higher > United States > History.
Learning and scholarship > United States > History.
Savoir et érudition > États-Unis > Histoire.
College teaching
Education, Higher
Learning and scholarship
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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 college 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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