Walden III
A Scholarly Novel About College Reform
Seiten
2019
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New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-6261-9 (ISBN)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-6261-9 (ISBN)
Walden III: A Scholarly Novel about College Reform is a hybrid text about college reform that marries fiction with academic scholarship.
Walden III: A Scholarly Novel About College Reform is a hybrid text about college reform that marries fiction with academic scholarship. In this book, Peter Simms, an associate professor of social psychology at fictional Marsden College in Ohio, visits Walden III College in order to learn how the experimental Brooklyn college achieves high retention and graduation rates of poor and unprepared students. The president of Walden III is the rich and mysterious Bryce Davis, the freshman-year college roommate of Simms. Visiting Walden III for a week, Simms learns about the innovative approaches that Walden III takes to college issues, such as curriculum, student housing, developmental education, and governance. Each chapter includes scholarly research on issues important to college reform.
College completion among poor and unprepared students is an issue of global concern. Walden III’s integration of fiction and scholarly research to address this issue gives the book a wide reach, appealing to administrators and the public alike. The book can also be used in English composition and literature classes, as well as in a variety of undergraduate and graduate education courses, particularly courses that examine education policy, curriculum, or administration.
Walden III: A Scholarly Novel About College Reform is a hybrid text about college reform that marries fiction with academic scholarship. In this book, Peter Simms, an associate professor of social psychology at fictional Marsden College in Ohio, visits Walden III College in order to learn how the experimental Brooklyn college achieves high retention and graduation rates of poor and unprepared students. The president of Walden III is the rich and mysterious Bryce Davis, the freshman-year college roommate of Simms. Visiting Walden III for a week, Simms learns about the innovative approaches that Walden III takes to college issues, such as curriculum, student housing, developmental education, and governance. Each chapter includes scholarly research on issues important to college reform.
College completion among poor and unprepared students is an issue of global concern. Walden III’s integration of fiction and scholarly research to address this issue gives the book a wide reach, appealing to administrators and the public alike. The book can also be used in English composition and literature classes, as well as in a variety of undergraduate and graduate education courses, particularly courses that examine education policy, curriculum, or administration.
Donald McCrary earned a PhD in English education from New York University and is an associate professor of English at Long Island University Brooklyn. His specialties are developmental writing and sociolinguistics, and he has published in College Composition and Communication and the Journal of Basic Writing.
Acknowledgements – Walden III: Introduction – Say My Name – Into the Breach – Through the Looking Glass – Smoke and Mirrors – In the Weeds – Recap – Going to Meet the Man – Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.02.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 452 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| Schlagworte | Bode • College • Donald • McCrary • Novel • Reform • Sarah • scholarly • Walden |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4331-6261-X / 143316261X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4331-6261-9 / 9781433162619 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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