Degrees of failure : university education in decline / Randle W. Nelsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelsen, Randle W., 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges--Sociological aspects.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 144 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Between the Lines, 2017.

Summary:

"In Degrees of Failure, sociologist Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show how continuing inequities, grounded in large part upon social class differences, are maintained and reproduced in our universities. Paying special attention to the role played by professors in solidifying status-quo arrangements, Nelsen makes the strange familiar for those outside the university bureaucracy and the familiar strange for those whose participation in university settings is a routine part of everyday life."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The University from the Inside-Out

Campus Parking and the Car as a Third Place

Parents and Pedagogy

Professionals and Professionalism

Edubusiness and Edutainment

Educators and Education at a Distance

Classroom Practice and Student-Friendly Suggestions

Cleaning up the Mess.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-137) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781771133357

177113335X

OCLC:

1045029168