This powerful, important, and controversial collection pushes the limits of criticism and, in so doing, represents the most sophisticated critical thinking being done today. Pedagogy is seen here as more than classroom practices or instructional methods. The authors of these eleven provocative and sometimes disturbing chapters view pedagogy as the ......
Chronicles events at a besieged university during the campus unrest of the Vietnam era. This book demonstrates the polarisation of campus constituencies, pointing out that diverse opinions existed among students, faculty, and administrators. It also examines the impact of student protests on state and national politicians and on the public.
Answers the fundamental question: How does a university like Georgetown maintain and develop its Catholic and Jesuit identity while actively engaging in the often conflicting political, social, and religious debates that America must urgently conduct today?
Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928
The modern university has been viewed by scholars as an oasis of academic autonomy that stands above or outside society and its political conflicts. Clyde Barrow challenges that vision with his conclusion that corporations and government have been the dominant social forces shaping the goals and structure of the American university. In ......
Growing out of a conference of representatives of programs that grant the doctorate in English, this volume examines the profession and the ways that graduate students are socialized into it. The essays sketch the profession's current views of the relation between reading and writing, addressing, in the words of the preface, "what it is that can ......
Traces the author's odyssey as he discovers his vocation, from his own college days to his tenure in a Turkish university as a visiting Fulbright scholar. This book is a collection of essays about higher education and American culture that dramatises and humanises the abstractly treated subject of education.
A first-person account of a moving human experience, in which some deeply-caring people search for ways to provide a humane, effective learning experience for students who are seen as preparing to be practitioners of a humane, changing profession.
Presents a study of the membership of American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century. This title examines Bailey Burritt's Professional Distribution of College and University Undergraduates (1912) noting that Burritt's categories oversimplify the data of the 37 institutions he studies.
