Ana M. Martínez-Alemán

Accountability, Pragmatic Aims, and the American University

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Undergraduate teaching and learning has faced external challenges throughout each historic period in Higher Education. Today the challenge to account for how students are taught and how they learn has become a prominent focus. Accountability, Pragmatic Aims, and the American University frames the debates on teaching and learning accountability in Higher Education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9780415991636
• ISBN-10: 0415991633
• Artikelnr.: 29923601

Autorenporträt

Ana M. Martínez-Alemán is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership & Higher Education Administration at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Accountability and the University's Democratic Imperatives
2. The Historic Purposes of Higher Learning in America and the Challenge of
Accountability
3. Postsecondary Teaching
4. The Rise of Managerialism
5. The Academic Profession and Undergraduate Teaching
6. Higher Learning in the 21st Century University
7. Conclusions