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1 online resource (x, 294 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 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. |
| Summary |
"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 Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscript material, the book weaves together student, faculty, and administrative perspectives in a rich portrait of undergraduate classrooms across time.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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
College teaching -- United States -- History.
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College teaching. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Education, Higher -- United States -- History.
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Education, Higher. |
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Learning and scholarship -- United States -- History.
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Learning and scholarship. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zimmerman, Jonathan, 1961- Amateur hour. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 9781421439099 (DLC) 2019057287 (OCoLC)1140351350 |
| ISBN |
9781421439105 (electronic book) |
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1421439107 (electronic book) |
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9781421439099 |
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1421439093 |
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