Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New EditionPrinceton University Press, 28. 2. 2009 - Počet stran: 440 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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... campus. *Since this book is concerned with the quality of undergraduate education, no effort has been made to discuss complaints involving such topics as college costs, admissions policies, or financial aid. *This book does not concern ...
... campus is seriously inhibited by the orthodoxies of political correctness. Affirmative action has undermined the integrity of faculty hiring. The great canonical masterpieces of litera- ture have been downgraded to make room for lesser ...
... campus crimes.2 Most courses were prescribed in a curriculum that usually included mathematics, logic, English, and classics, with a heavy dose of Latin and Greek. In a typical class, students re- cited passages from an ancient text ...
... campus behavior, and requiring daily attendance at chapel. As a culminating experience, most colleges prior to the Civil War offered a mandatory course for seniors on issues of moral philosophy, often taught by the president himself ...
... campus orthodoxies of today, but that is only because they were much more closely aligned with the prevailing social attitudes of the time. According to one large-scale study of undergraduates in the early 1950s, “the main overall ...
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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 |