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02919aam a2200421 i 4500 001 622E8750B22011EBA3B7F59C2EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210511010310 008 200114t20202020mdu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019057287 020 $a 1421439093 020 $a 9781421439099 035 $a (OCoLC)1140351350 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d TOH $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a LB2331 $b .Z56 2020 082 00 $a 378.1/250973 $2 23 100 1 $a Zimmerman, Jonathan, $d 1961- $e author. 245 14 $a The amateur hour : $b a history of college teaching in America / $c Jonathan Zimmerman. 264 1 $a Baltimore, Maryland : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 294 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : personality over bureaucracy : the paradox of college teaching in America -- Between the two ends of the log : teaching and learning in the nineteenth century -- Scholarship and its discontents : teaching and learning in the Progressive Era -- The curse of gigantism : mass-produced education and its critics in interwar America -- "Teaching made personal" : reform and its limits in interwar college teaching -- Expansion and repression : Cold War challenges for college teaching -- TV or not TV? : reforming Cold War teaching -- The university under attack : college teaching in the 1960s and 1970s -- Experimentation and improvement : reforming teaching in the 1960s and 1970s -- Epilogue : the decade of the undergraduate? : college teaching in the 1990s and beyond -- Appendix. Archives of college teaching. 520 $a "This is the first book-length history of college teaching in America, which traditionally has been a matter of imitation for instructors rather than formal training. Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscript material, the book weaves together student, faculty, and administrative perspectives in a rich portrait of undergraduate classrooms across time. It also documents long-standing but largely unknown efforts to reform college instruction by making it more personal, especially at research institutions"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a College teaching $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Education, Higher $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Learning and scholarship $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a EDUCATION / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a College teaching. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00868201 650 7 $a Education, Higher. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903005 650 7 $a Learning and scholarship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00994857 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041849.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=622E8750B22011EBA3B7F59C2EECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOOInitiate Another SILO Locator Search