The Instruction Myth : Why Higher Education is Hard to Change, and How to Change It / John Tagg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tagg, John, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 330 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Higher education is broken, and we haven't been able to fix it. Even in the face of great and growing dysfunction, it seems resistant to fundamental change. At this point, can anything be done to save it? The Instruction Myth argues that yes, higher education can be reformed and reinvigorated, but it will not be an easy process. In fact, it will require universities to abandon their central operating principle, the belief that education revolves around instruction, easily measurable in course syllabi, credits, and enrollments. Acclaimed education scholar John Tagg presents a powerful case that instruction alone is worthless and that universities should instead be centered upon student learning, which is far harder to quantify and standardize. Yet, as he shows, decades of research have indicated how to best promote student learning, but few universities have systematically implemented these suggestions. This book demonstrates why higher education must undergo radical change if it hopes to survive. More importantly, it offers specific policy suggestions for how universities can break their harmful dependence on the instruction myth. In this extensively researched book, Tagg offers a compelling diagnosis of what's ailing American higher education and a prescription for how it might still heal itself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?

1. The Chronic Crisis

2. How Did It Get This Way?

Part II: Why Is Change So Hard?

3. The Status Quo Bias

4. How the Status Quo Bias Defends Itself in Organizations

5. The Design of Colleges and the Myths of Quality

6. Framing the Faculty Role: Graduate School, Departments, and the Price of Change

7. The Myth of Unity and the Paradox of Effort

8. Faculty Expertise and the Myth of Teacher Professionalism

9. Trial Run: The Case of the Degree Qualifications Profile

Part III: Learning to Change, Changing to Learn

10. Seeds of Change

11. How Do People Learn to Change?

12. Diffusing Innovation by Making Peer Groups

13. Promoting Innovation through Scholarly Teaching

14. The Teaching Inventory and Portfolio

15. The Outcomes Transcript and Portfolio

16. Changing the Faculty Endowment

17. Creating a Market for Education

18. Levers for Change: A New Accountability

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-9788-0448-2

OCLC:

1100890478