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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... intellectuals, such as Dinesh D'Souza, and journalists, such as Charles Sykes, quickly weighed in with harsh attacks on a broad array of university policies.3 Professors too—almost all from the humanities—began publishing critical ...
... intellectual standards to deteriorate.8 As they see it, discourse on 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 ...
... intellectual progress. The marketplace affirms these conclusions by giving large additional rewards to those who carry their education beyond high school to ac- quire a B.A. degree. These positive results suggest that the critics were ...
... intellectual experience but an excuse for making social contacts and enjoying the good life. As one dean of students, LeBaron Briggs, candidly admitted, “Social ambition is the strongest power in many a student's life.”13 In retrospect ...
... intellectual heritage of the West. These patterns of breadth and depth were nourished by constant growth in the number of courses, made possible by the steady expansion of university faculties. Entirely new disciplines, with courses of ...
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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 |