As If Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education

As If Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education
ISBN-10
0801485282
ISBN-13
9780801485282
Category
Education
Pages
249
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Richard Earl Miller

Description

Writing with wit and precision, Miller shows why the system of higher education has been particularly resistant to reform. Unraveling stereotypes about conservative, liberal, and radical reform efforts, Miller looks at what has acutally happened when theories about education have been put into practice. What did Matthew Arnold do as a school inspector to promote the study of "the best that has been thought and said in our time"? ...

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