Christopher Newfield
Autor de Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class
Sobre El Autor
Christopher Newfield is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Obras de Christopher Newfield
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Miembros
- 155
- Popularidad
- #135,097
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 15
YES so many issues result from lack of public funding and the idea that college degrees are worthless if they don't earn us money. But missing from this book is the right-wing takeover of boards of education. Undermentioned was the administrative bloat that commands high six-figure salaries each while replacing full-time faculty with hoards of underpaid adjuncts. Completely ignored was the effect of teaching unions on any of this.
And I could have lived without his preachy diatribe against lectures and for "mastery learning." Leave us to our own pedagogies, please. Academic freedom means I know how to run my classroom better than you do, Professor Newfield.
The best part was the discussion against MOOCs. I've been in higher ed long enough to have been through so many of the fads that are "totally going to change education" that wind up being short-lived wastes of instructional budgets. But since teaching hybrid and switching back to face-to-face (FINALLY) post-Covid, I know firsthand how poorly remote instruction serves students, especially the ones that the author is most concerned about. And yet, those administrators looking to justify their $250,000/year are going to keep coming up with new fixes that don't address the deeper issues.
Overall, worth a read.… (más)