The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America

by Jonathan Zimmerman

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The first full-length history of college teaching in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the ongoing tension between the modern scholarly ideal--scientific, objective, and dispassionate--and the inevitably subjective nature of day-to-day instruction.

American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the past 150 years, as critics have...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1421439093

ISBN13:9781421439099

Release Date:October 2020

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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