The Amateur Hour Av Jonathan (professor Of History Of Education University Of Pennsylvania) Zimmerman

<p><b>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.</b></p><p>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 denounced the poor quality of instruction in undergraduate classrooms. Students daydream in gigantic lecture halls while a professor drones on, or they meet with a teaching assistant for an hour of aimless discussion. The modern university does not reward teaching, so faculty members at every level neglect it in favor of research and publication. </p><p>In the first book-length history of American college teaching, Jonathan Zimmerman confirms but also contradicts these perennial complaints. Drawing upon a wide range of previously unexamined so

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