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The State of the Academy: A Review Essay

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dc.creator Robin Wallace
dc.date 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:33:04Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:33:04Z
dc.identifier 2155-109X
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/abbd91811b9449e2a90e81aadb0402f8
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/22611
dc.description Two recent books (Professor X, In the Basement of the Ivory Tower and Arum and Roksa, Academically Adrift) both indict American higher education and, at least implicitly, compare its situation today with that of an idealized past when college students were better and professors had it easy. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower describes the experiences “Professor X,” who writes colorfully and provocatively about the time he had spent as an adjunct instructor of English teaching evening classes at two regional schools. Academically Adrift is written by two sociologists, with the assistance of several graduate students, and it received very wide press coverage when it appeared in 2011 because of its claim that despite the vast amounts of money being spent by American students to get a college education, most of them aren’t learning very much. Together, these works lead us to ask whether progress is possible in the diverse and baffling environment of current college teaching and to wonder what that progress would look like.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society
dc.relation http://www.ams-net.org/ojs/index.php/jmhp/article/view/99/122
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2155-109X
dc.source Journal of Music History Pedagogy, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 207-212 (2013)
dc.subject Academically Adrift
dc.subject In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
dc.subject adjunct instructors
dc.subject review
dc.subject American higher education
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Music and books on Music
dc.subject M
dc.subject DOAJ:Music
dc.subject DOAJ:Arts and Architecture
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Music and books on Music
dc.subject M
dc.subject DOAJ:Music
dc.subject DOAJ:Arts and Architecture
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Music and books on Music
dc.subject M
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Music and books on Music
dc.subject M
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Music and books on Music
dc.subject M
dc.title The State of the Academy: A Review Essay
dc.type article


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