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9780803990456

The Social Worlds of Higher Education; Handbook for Teaching in A New Century

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    9780803990456

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    0803990456

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-03-01
  • Publisher: Pine Forge Press
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Summary

This is the first comprehensive guide to teaching in the social sciences ever published. "'Two complete works in one" provides a survey of the larger institutional context and alternative perspectives on current debates in higher education, as well as a comprehensive and practical guide to teaching. Contains original essays by leading teachers and scholars including Craig Calhoun, Teresa Sullivan, Dean Dorn, Paul Baker, Charles Tilly, Howard Aldrich, Daniel Chambliss, and Mary Romero. The accompanying Fieldguide for Teaching includes an additional 80 articles, excerpts, teaching tips, exercises, checklists, and overheads covering a complete spectrum of teaching concerns.

Table of Contents

Teaching for What and for Whom? The Social Worlds and Structural Paradoxes of the University at the End of the 20th Century
PART ONE: SURVEYING THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY: PRESSURES FROM THE OUTSIDE - Gene I Maeroff
The Debate
College Teachers, the New Leisure Class - Ronald Aminzade and Bernice A Pescosolido
Introduction to the Changing Landscape of Higher Education - Craig Calhoun
The Changing Character of College
Institutional Transformation in American Higher Education - Teresa Sullivan
Higher Education and Its Social Contracts - Arthur Levine
How the Academic Profession is Changing - Burton R Clark
Small Worlds, Different Worlds
The Uniqueness and Troubles of American Academic Professions - Charles S Green III and Dean S Dorn
The Changing Classroom
The Meaning of Shifts in Higher Education for Teaching and Learning
PART TWO: MAPPING ISSUES IN THE SOCIAL WORLDS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: ARGUMENTS FROM THE INSIDE - Mark Edmundson
The Debate
On the Uses of a Liberal Education - As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students - Diane F Halpern
The War of the Worlds
Why Psychology Helps Bridge the Gap Between Students' and Professsors' Conceptual Understanding - Paul Baker
Creating Learning Communities
The Unfinished Agenda - Thomas A Angelo
The Campus as Learning Community
Seven Promising Shifts and Seven Powerful Levers - Donald L Finkel and G Stephen Monk
Dissolution of the Atlas Complex - Richard Paul
Critical Thinking, Moral Integrity and Citizenshiip
Teaching for Intellectual Virtues - Jamie A Vasquez and Nancy Wainstein
Instructional Responsibilities of College Faculty to Minority Students - Norman Furniss
Barbarians Inside the Gate? Why Undergraduates Always Seem Worse and Civilization as We Know It at the Brink - Craig E Nelson
On the Persistence of Unicorns
The Trade-Off between Content and Critical Thinking Revisited - Jeremy Freeze, Julie E Artis and Brian Powell
Now I Know my ABC's
Demythologizing Grade Inflation - Mary Dean Sorcinelli
The Evaluation of Teaching
The 40-Year Debate about Student, Colleague and Self-Evaluations - Pat Hutchings
Behind Outcomes
Contexts and Questions for Assessment - Patrick J Hill
Multiculturalism
The Crucial Philosophical and Organziational Issues - Gerald Graff
Conflict in America - Robert N Bellah
Class Wars and Culture Wars in the University Today
Why We Can't Defend Ourselves - Troy Duster
An Emerging Reformulation of "Competence" in an Increasingly Multicultural World - Charles Tilly
The Trouble with Stories - Carole E Hill
Challenging Assumptions of Human Diversity
The Teaching Imagination in Anthropology - Harvey J Graff
Teaching and Historical Understanding
Disciplining Historical Imagination with Historical Context - Howard Aldrich and Solvi Lillejord
Stop Making Sense! Why Aren't Universities Better at Promoting Innovative Teaching? - David M Newman
Three Faces of Relevance
Connecting Disciplinary Knowledge to the "Real World" - Lawrence C Soley
Underneath the Ivy /f003and/f001 the Social Costs of Corporate Ties - Linda Ray Pratt
Disposable Faculty
Part-Time Exploitation as Management Strategy - Erwin Chemerinsky
Is Tenure Necessary to Protect Academic Freedom? - Richard Edwards
Why Tenure is Worth Protecting - William G Tierney
Academic Community and Post-Tenure Review - Steven M Cahn
Two Concepts of Affirmative Action - Amy Gutmann
Distributing Higher Education - bell hooks
Eros, Eroticism and the Pedagogical Process - Jane Gallop
Consensual Amorous Relations - Patrick Dilger
Putting an End to Risky Romance - Bernice A Pescosolido and Eleanor Miller
Of Nerds, Ardent Suitors and Lecherous Professors - Daniel F Chambliss
Doing What Works
On the Mundanity of Excellence in Teaching - Gerald T Powers
Teaching and Learning
A Matter of Style? - Stephen Brookfield
Building Trust with Students - Peter Elbow
Embracing Contraries in the Teaching Process - Marilyn R Schuster and Susan R Van Dyne
Stages of Curriculum Transformation - Elizabeth Higginbotham
Getting All Students to Listen
Analyzing and Coping with Student Resistance - Thomas J Gerschick
Should and Can a White, Heterosexual Middle-Class Man Teach Students about Social Inequality and Oppression? One Person's Experience and Reflections - Elizabeth Ellsworth
Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy - Brian Ault
View from the Inside
The Disabling Structures of Graduate Education - Parker J Palmer
The Heart of a Teacher
Identity and Integrity in Teaching - Sara C Hare, Walter R Jacobs and Jean Harold Shin
Entering the Classroom from the Other Side
A Conversation on the Life and Times of Graduate Associate Instructors - Kent L Sandstrom
Embracing Modest Hopes
Lessons from the Beginning of the Teaching Journey - Diane Gillespie
Carl's Story
Narrative as Reflective Teaching Practice - Howard Aldrich
Promise, Failure and Redemption
A Life Course Perspective on Teaching as a Career
PART THREE: CHARTING THE LANDSCAPE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY - Allan Bloom
The Debate
The Student and the University - Craig Calhoun
Continuing Trends or Future Transformations? - R Eugene Rice
Rethinking Faculty Careers - Robert B Barr and John Tagg
From Teaching to Learning
A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education - Elizabeth Grauerholz, Brett McKenzie and Mary Romero
Behond These Walls
Teaching Within and Outside the Expanded Classroom - Boundaries in the 21st Century - Ronald Aminzade and Bernice A Pescosolido
Reconstructing the Social Worlds of Higher Education
Changes, Challenges and Dilemmas

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