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The Social Worlds of Higher Education
Handbook for Teaching in A New Century
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March 1999 | 672 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This is the first comprehensive guide to teaching in the social sciences ever published. "'Two complete works in one" provides a survey of the larger institutional context and alternative perspectives on current debates in higher education, as well as a comprehensive and practical guide to teaching. Contains original essays by leading teachers and scholars including Craig Calhoun, Teresa Sullivan, Dean Dorn, Paul Baker, Charles Tilly, Howard Aldrich, Daniel Chambliss, and Mary Romero. The accompanying Fieldguide for Teaching includes an additional 80 articles, excerpts, teaching tips, exercises, checklists, and overheads covering a complete spectrum of teaching concerns.
Bernice A Pescosolido and Ronald Aminzade
Teaching for What and for Whom? The Social Worlds and Structural Paradoxes of the University at the End of the 20th Century
PART ONE: SURVEYING THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY: PRESSURES FROM THE OUTSIDE
Gene I Maeroff
The Debate
Ronald Aminzade and Bernice A Pescosolido
Introduction to the Changing Landscape of Higher Education
Craig Calhoun
The Changing Character of College
Teresa Sullivan
Higher Education and Its Social Contracts
Arthur Levine
How the Academic Profession is Changing
Burton R Clark
Small Worlds, Different Worlds
Charles S Green III and Dean S Dorn
The Changing Classroom
PART TWO: MAPPING ISSUES IN THE SOCIAL WORLDS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: ARGUMENTS FROM THE INSIDE
Mark Edmundson
The Debate
Diane F Halpern
The War of the Worlds
Paul Baker
Creating Learning Communities
Thomas A Angelo
The Campus as Learning Community
Donald L Finkel and G Stephen Monk
Dissolution of the Atlas Complex
Richard Paul
Critical Thinking, Moral Integrity and Citizenshiip
Jamie A Vasquez and Nancy Wainstein
Instructional Responsibilities of College Faculty to Minority Students
Norman Furniss
Barbarians Inside the Gate? Why Undergraduates Always Seem Worse and Civilization as We Know It at the Brink
Craig E Nelson
On the Persistence of Unicorns
Jeremy Freeze, Julie E Artis and Brian Powell
Now I Know my ABC's
Mary Dean Sorcinelli
The Evaluation of Teaching
Pat Hutchings
Behind Outcomes
Patrick J Hill
Multiculturalism
Gerald Graff
Conflict in America
Robert N Bellah
Class Wars and Culture Wars in the University Today
Troy Duster
An Emerging Reformulation of "Competence" in an Increasingly Multicultural World
Charles Tilly
The Trouble with Stories
Carole E Hill
Challenging Assumptions of Human Diversity
Harvey J Graff
Teaching and Historical Understanding
Howard Aldrich and Solvi Lillejord
Stop Making Sense! Why Aren't Universities Better at Promoting Innovative Teaching?
David M Newman
Three Faces of Relevance
Lawrence C Soley
Underneath the Ivy and the Social Costs of Corporate Ties
Linda Ray Pratt
Disposable Faculty
Erwin Chemerinsky
Is Tenure Necessary to Protect Academic Freedom?
Richard Edwards
Why Tenure is Worth Protecting
William G Tierney
Academic Community and Post-Tenure Review
Steven M Cahn
Two Concepts of Affirmative Action
Amy Gutmann
Distributing Higher Education
bell hooks
Eros, Eroticism and the Pedagogical Process
Jane Gallop
Consensual Amorous Relations
Patrick Dilger
Putting an End to Risky Romance
Bernice A Pescosolido and Eleanor Miller
Of Nerds, Ardent Suitors and Lecherous Professors
Daniel F Chambliss
Doing What Works
Gerald T Powers
Teaching and Learning
Stephen Brookfield
Building Trust with Students
Peter Elbow
Embracing Contraries in the Teaching Process
Marilyn R Schuster and Susan R Van Dyne
Stages of Curriculum Transformation
Elizabeth Higginbotham
Getting All Students to Listen
Thomas J Gerschick
Should and Can a White, Heterosexual Middle-Class Man Teach Students about Social Inequality and Oppression? One Person's Experience and Reflections
Elizabeth Ellsworth
Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy
Brian Ault
View from the Inside
Parker J Palmer
The Heart of a Teacher
Sara C Hare, Walter R Jacobs and Jean Harold Shin
Entering the Classroom from the Other Side
Kent L Sandstrom
Embracing Modest Hopes
Diane Gillespie
Carl's Story
Howard Aldrich
Promise, Failure and Redemption
PART THREE: CHARTING THE LANDSCAPE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Allan Bloom
The Debate
Craig Calhoun
Continuing Trends or Future Transformations?
R Eugene Rice
Rethinking Faculty Careers
Robert B Barr and John Tagg
From Teaching to Learning
Elizabeth Grauerholz, Brett McKenzie and Mary Romero
Behond These Walls
Ronald Aminzade and Bernice A Pescosolido
Reconstructing the Social Worlds of Higher Education
"Teaching in colleges and universities can be particularly challengin and this handbook and field guide offer practical tips for beginning instructors and seasoned faculty members to use. Moreover, the essays touch on the personal as well as professional aspects of teaching in higher education."
Southern Illinois University
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