Higher Education and the American Dream

Success and its Discontents

Marvin Lazerson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

231 Seiten

2007
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-9776-79-1 (ISBN)

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Has higher education become too successful? Are the expectations for higher education too grandiose? Lazerson discusses both the problems and the accomplishment of American universities with equal care. The book delivers a penetrating, nuanced account of American universities in the twenty-first century. Tackles topics that range from the rise of the managerial class to the failed attempts to reform practice in the classroom.

Marvin Lazerson is professor of higher education policy in the Department of Public Policy, Central European University and professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Acknowledgments Introduction: Houses, automobiles, and higher education Part I The Gospel of Getting Ahead Chapter 1 Building the dream (and worrying about it) Chapter 2 Higher education as vocational education Part II Governance and Managerial Dilemmas Chapter 3 Who governs higher education? Chapter 4 Managerial imperatives Part III The Learning Conundrum Chapter 5 Research, teaching, and undergraduate education Chapter 6 A revolution in teaching and learning? Part IV Making Things Better Chapter 7 Why is higher education so hard to reform? References Name index Subject index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.6.2010
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 234 mm
Gewicht	475 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	963-9776-79-3 / 9639776793
ISBN-13	978-963-9776-79-1 / 9789639776791
Zustand	Neuware