The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Book Overview

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.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421439093
• ISBN13: 9781421439099
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"