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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... instructors that fill their campuses today. Some understanding of the evolution of American colleges is needed as the background for a serious discussion of the contemporary college experience. Only through acquaintance with this ...
... instructor. Although many colleges offered courses in the sciences, such as astronomy or botany, classes were taught more often by invoking Aristotle and other authorities than by describing experiments and the scientific method. By ...
... Instructors chafed at having to spend so much time enforcing rules of behavior. Expressing their displeasure with the status quo, students began to vote with their feet. From 1850 to 1870, undergraduate enrollments in America actually ...
... instructors in every possible way.”14 Whatever the underlying causes, critics of the elective system seized on such carefree undergraduate behavior as a justification for imposing greater structure on the curriculum. By the early ...
... instructor. Never before had such extensive intellectual resources been so readily available to enhance the undergraduate educational experience. RECENT CRITICISMS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE All the new courses, interdisciplinary ...
Inhalt
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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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