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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... practical kind. Instruction in modern languages and literature continued to spread. Courses in physics, biology, and chemistry sprung up everywhere. Private universities introduced new programs in vocational subjects such as commerce ...
... practical, vocational sort. Humanists argued for the primacy of liberal learning and the cultivation of intellect, refinement, and judgment. University presidents such as Woodrow Wilson spoke of a commitment to public service. Research ...
... practical, vocational aspect.31 In the words of Christopher Jencks and David Riesman, “the question has always been how an institution mixed the academic with the vocational, not whether it did so.”32 The recent growth in the number of ...
... practical subjects. What a vocational B.A. typically means is simply that a student has substituted a practical, job-oriented concentration. *The removal of occupational barriers that had hindered the entry of women into most professions ...
... practical, job-oriented concentration for a major in a liberal arts discipline. The re- maining courses in the undergraduate program (often more than half the total number required) are still available for general education and ...
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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