| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 392 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-382) and index. |
| Contents |
Who cares for teaching in community colleges: the rationale and methodology of our inquiry -- Instructors' approaches to pedagogy and the multiple conceptions of "good teaching" -- Modal classroom: the varieties of lecture/discussion -- Lecture/workshop and "hands-on" learning: the complexities of occupational instruction / W. Norton Grubb and Barbara Byrd -- Remedial/developmental education / W. Norton Grubb and Helena Worthen -- Standards and content: the special dilemmas of community colleges / W. Norton Grubb and Helena Worthen -- Innovative practices: the pedagogical and institutional challenges -- Institutional influences on teaching: the potential power of "teaching colleges" / W. Norton Grubb and Elnora Webb -- Funding and policy: the neglect of teaching -- Alternative futures: creating the "teaching college." |
| Summary |
Based on the most extensive research on community college teaching to date, this book examines the nature of teaching and the institutional forces that shape it in a variety of course settings. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Community college teaching -- United States.
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Community college teaching. |
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United States. |
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Community colleges -- United States.
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Community colleges. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grubb, W. Norton. Honored but invisible. New York : Routledge, 1999 0415921643 (DLC) 98035021 (OCoLC)39508223 |
| ISBN |
0585451893 (electronic book) |
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9780585451893 (electronic book) |
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0203900855 |
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9780203900857 |
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0415921643 (hardback) |
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9780415921640 (hardback) |
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0415921651 (paperback) |
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9780415921657 (paperback) |
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