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

Author/creator Zimmerman, Jonathan, 1961- author.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Description1 online resource (x, 294 pages)
Supplemental Content Ebook Central
Subject(s)
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.
Abstract "This is the first book-length history of college teaching in America, which traditionally has been a matter of imitation for instructors rather than formal training. Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscript material, the book weaves together student, faculty, and administrative perspectives in a rich portrait of undergraduate classrooms across time. It also documents long-standing but largely unknown efforts to reform college instruction by making it more personal, especially at research institutions"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed October 12, 2020).
Issued in other formPrint version: Zimmerman, Jonathan, 1961- Amateur hour. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 9781421439099
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN9781421439105 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1421439107 (electronic bk.)

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