The amateur hour : a history of college teaching in America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zimmerman, Jonathan, 1961- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	College teaching > United States > History. Education, Higher > United States > History. Learning and scholarship > United States > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : personality over bureaucracy : the paradox of college teaching in America
Between the two ends of the log : teaching and learning in the nineteenth century
Scholarship and its discontents : teaching and learning in the Progressive Era
The curse of gigantism : mass-produced education and its critics in interwar America
"Teaching made personal" : reform and its limits in interwar college teaching
Expansion and repression : Cold War challenges for college teaching
TV or not TV? : reforming Cold War teaching
The university under attack : college teaching in the 1960s and 1970s
Experimentation and improvement : reforming teaching in the 1960s and 1970s
Epilogue : the decade of the undergraduate? : college teaching in the 1990s and beyond
Appendix. Archives of college teaching.