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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... curriculum was required in the average college. By 1901, curricula in more than one-third of American colleges were at least 70 percent elective.10 By 1940, the share of mandatory courses in the typical college curriculum had declined ...
... curriculum. Even in the more conservative atmosphere of Yale, the typical student was described as “a careless boy-man who is chiefly anxious to 'have a good time,' and who shirks his work and deceives his instructors in every possible ...
... curriculum founded on a study of the great works of Western civilization never gained much of a following among ... curricular reform in America by observing that “the general education 23.
... curriculum, faculties have clung to several different visions of education, with no one model proving itself superior in a clearly demonstrable way. As Laurence Veysey points out in his survey of curricular change since 1900, “when one ...
... curriculum. The most obvious example involves the place of skills. Professors who value knowledge for its own sake are not likely to attach the same importance to skills as undergraduates who have come to college seeking instruction ...
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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