The student a short history Michael S. Roth

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Michael S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College students--History.

College students.

Students--History.

Students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven Yale University Press 2023

Summary:

From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom In this sweeping book, Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present. Beginning with the followers of Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus and moving to medieval apprentices, students at Enlightenment centers of learning, and learners enrolled in twenty-first-century universities, he explores how students have been followers, interlocutors, disciples, rebels, and children becoming adults. There are many ways to be a student, Roth argues, but at their core is developing the capacity to think for oneself by learning from others, and thereby finding freedom. In an age of machine learning, this book celebrates the student who develops more than mastery, cultivating curiosity, judgment, creativity, and an ability to keep learning beyond formal schooling. Roth shows how the student throughout history has been someone who interacts dynamically with the world, absorbing its lessons and creatively responding to them.

Contents:

Introduction

Iconic teachers, exemplary students

Children, apprentices, students : learning independence

The emergence of the modern student

The student in college : growing up is hard to do

Thinking for oneself by learning from others.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-300-27483-1

OCLC:

1393241088