The Amateur Hour
The Amateur Hour American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. Students daydream in gigantic lecture halls while a professor drones on, or they meet with a teaching assistant for an hour…
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The Amateur Hour
American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. Students daydream in gigantic lecture halls while a professor drones on, or they meet with a teaching assistant for an hour of aimless discussion. But we've heard that complaint for the past 150 years, as critics have denounced the poor quality of instruction in undergraduate classrooms.
Drawing upon a wide range of previously unexamined sources, The Amateur Hour shows how generations of undergraduates indicted the weak instruction they received. The modern university does not reward teaching, so faculty members at every level neglect it in favor of research and publication.In the first book-length history of American college teaching, Jonathan Zimmerman confirms but also contradicts these perennial complaints. But Zimmerman also chronicles institutional efforts to improve it, especially by making teaching more
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