The instruction myth : why higher education is hard to change, and how to change it /
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Rutgers University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New Brunswick, New Jersey : |
Publication Dates: | [2019] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | viii, 330 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781978804456 1978804458 |
Index Number: | LA227 |
CLC: | G649.712 |
Call Number: | G649.712/T125 |
Contents: | Where are we and how did we get here? -- The chronic crisis -- How did it get this way? -- Why is change so hard? -- The status quo bias -- How the status quo bias defends itself in organizations -- The design of colleges and the myths of quality -- Framing the faculty role : graduate school, departments, and the price of change -- The myth of unity and the paradox of effort -- Faculty expertise and the myth of teacher professionalism -- Trial run : changing the college, the case of the degree qualifications profile -- Learning to change, changing to learn -- Seeds of change -- How do people learn to change? -- Diffusing innovation by making peer groups -- Promoting innovation through scholarly teaching -- Information flow and feedback : the teaching inventory and portfolio -- Information flow and feedback : the outcomes transcript and portfolio -- Changing the faculty endowment -- Creating a market for education -- Levers for change : a new accountability. |