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245 14 a| The amateur hourh| [electronic resource] :b| a history of college teaching in America /c| Jonathan Zimmerman.;

260 a| Baltimore :b| Johns Hopkins University Press,c| 2020.;

300 a| x, 294 pages ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "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 Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscript material, the book weaves together student, faculty, and administrative perspectives in a rich portrait of undergraduate classrooms across time.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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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

Author/creator	Zimmerman, Jonathan, 1961-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Description	x, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	College teaching--United States. --History. Education, Higher--United States. --History. Learning and scholarship--United States. --History.

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 note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019057287
ISBN	9781421439099 (hardcover)
ISBN	(ebook)

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