The Amateur Hour
Subtitle: A History of College Teaching in America
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781421439099
Subjects: Education
Description: "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 Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscript material, the book weaves together student, faculty, and administrative perspectives in a rich portrait of undergraduate classrooms across time.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"--