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The Amateur Hour A History of College Teaching in America / Jonathan Zimmerman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zimmerman, Jonathan, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Learning and scholarship--United States--History.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Education, Higher--United States--History.
- Education, Higher.
- College teaching--United States--History.
- College teaching.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
- 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 Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscript material, the book weaves together student, faculty, and administrative perspectives in a rich portrait of undergraduate classrooms across time.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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-3909-3
- OCLC:
- 1194528709
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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