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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... women, African Americans, or Third World writers. The very ideals of truth and objectivity, along with conventional judgments of quality, are thought to be endangered by attacks from deconstructionists, feminists, Marxists, and other ...
... women all over the world are eager to take their place and are empowered by technology to do so. In this environment, the quality of education in American colleges has assumed greater importance than ever before. Reason the more for ...
... women's colleges, and urban universities. The differences among these institutions are obvious and will be noted where it is important to do so. Nevertheless, despite the contrasts in such matters as size, facilities, and student ...
... 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 interdepartmental programs ...
... women, ignored any need to recruit minority students, and silenced radical voices for a generation. The conformities of that age may have seemed less visible than the campus orthodoxies of today, but that is only because they were much ...
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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