Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New EditionPrinceton University Press, 28.02.2009 - 440 Seiten Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning. Large majorities of college seniors do not feel that they have made substantial progress in speaking a foreign language, acquiring cultural and aesthetic interests, or learning what they need to know to become active and informed citizens. Overall, despite their vastly increased resources, more powerful technology, and hundreds of new courses, colleges cannot be confident that students are learning more than they did fifty years ago. |
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... fields of knowledge that are common today were still unknown. As late as 1940, fewer than 1 in 20 adults had a B.A. degree. It is only within the past 50 years that universities have come to boast the huge enrollments, the elaborately ...
... It set forth precepts of ethical behavior, it prepared students for civic responsibility, and it brought together knowledge from several fields of learning. For many students, it was the high point of an otherwise dull 13.
... field of knowledge in real depth.11 Many undergraduates studied as little as possible and relied on paid tutors—or “crammers”—to fill their heads with just enough information at semester's end to pass their exams. Meanwhile, social ...
... field of concentration, to stop them from taking a long series of introductory courses. The resulting curriculum, with its combination of breadth and depth of study, had already been adopted by most other colleges. Depth was achieved ...
... fields such as women's studies, Afro-American studies, and ethnic studies. In response to America's new international prominence, and aided by significant outside support, other faculty members created research centers and ...
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3 Purposes | 58 |
4 Learning to Communicate | 82 |
5 Learning to Think | 109 |
6 Building Character | 146 |
7 Preparation for Citizenship | 172 |
9 Preparing for a Global Society | 225 |
10 Acquiring Broader Interests | 255 |
11 Preparing for a Career | 281 |
12 Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education | 310 |
Afterword to the Paperback Edition | 345 |
Notes | 361 |
Index | 411 |
8 Living with Diversity | 194 |
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