{"product_id":"making-sense-of-the-college-curriculum-faculty-stories-of-change-conflict-and-accommodation-hardback-9780813595023","title":"Making Sense of the College Curriculum; Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation (Hardback) 9780813595023","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking Sense of the College Curriculum\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFaculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Zemsky (Author), Gregory R Wegner (Author), Ann J. Duffield (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813595023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 June 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Interviews of nearly 180 faculty at a diverse range of colleges and universities demonstrate an inspiring commitment to teaching and to doing whatever it takes to improve student learning. Yet this commitment has not translated into the kind of curricular reform our colleges and our society need if higher education is to be more accessible and effective. The authors, in candidly recounting faculty stories of frustrating failure as well as joyful success, provide important new insights into the many exasperating barriers to broader curricular change; impediments which can only be overcome by a new kind of partnership among faculty, institutional decision makers, and education leaders.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Richard Detweiler, Ph.D (President, Great Lakes Colleges Association) \u003cdiv\u003e“There has been an on-going national conversation about what is taught in the higher education classroom and how much it matters. \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of the College Curriculum\u003c\/i\u003e responds strongly and directly to the conversation by offering a critical assessment of what some of the most committed teachers in higher education aspire to do in modernizing the curriculum.  It places balanced emphasis on matters of racial and other social differences, the influence of social media, and the existence of instructional and other technology that have shaped the contemporary challenge of higher education teaching. It also delivers a clear message to faculty that thinking in much the same way over time about pedagogy is perilous because students are coming to the classroom each semester, academic year, and decade with different interests, capacities, and expectations about what higher educational learning is all about. Hence, for dedicated instructors sensitivity, self-awareness, and preparedness for adaption must be the constants.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Alford A. Young, Jr. (co-editor, Faculty Social Identity and the Challenges of Diversity: Reflections on Teaching in Highe) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2018\/06\/05\/authors-discuss-new-book-faculty-role-curricular-change\"'\u003e\"‘Making Sense of the College Curriculum’: Authors discuss new book examining the faculty role -- and how professors view their responsibilities\" by Scott Jaschik\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Inside Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher\/243686\"'\u003e\"Selected New Books in Higher Education,\" compiled by Ruth Hammond\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Not-Just-for-Video-Games-\/243729\"'\u003e\"Not Just for Video Games: Virtual Reality Joins the Classroom\" article in\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eTeaching Newsletter\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/grade-point\/wp\/2018\/08\/09\/lots-of-new-college-majors\/?utm_term=.fa6221fab1bb\"'\u003e\"Panicked universities in search of students are adding thousands of new majors\" by Jon Marcus\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Washington Post) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/kjzz.org\/content\/688903\/colleges-nationwide-hope-new-majors-will-attract-students\"'\u003e\"Colleges Nationwide Hope New Majors Will Attract Students,\" Robert Zemsky interview with Lauren Gilger\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (KJZZ) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of The College Curriculum \u003c\/i\u003eis a useful start about how to make a coherent college curriculum.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (VoegelinView)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReaders of \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of the College Curriculum\u003c\/i\u003e expecting a traditional academic publication full of numeric and related data will likely be disappointed with this volume, which is based on stories rather than numbers. The contributors include over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities, representing all sectors of higher education, who share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in a life that is more a calling than a profession. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a coherent undergraduate curriculum is so vexing to colleges and universities. Their stories also belie the public’s and policymakers’ belief that faculty members care more about their scholarship and research than their students and work far less than most people.  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface:  An Exercise in Sense Making \u003cbr\u003e Section I: Defining the Task\u003cbr\u003e Introduction:  It's a Riddle After All \u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  Hard Conversations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section II:   Passions\u003cbr\u003e 1    I Am a Bridge \u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  Taking Ownership\u003cbr\u003e 2     Why We Do What We Do \u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  Hidden among the Artifacts \u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  An Experiment in Experiential Learning \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section III:  Adaptations\u003cbr\u003e 3           Flying Solo\u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  Practice Makes Perfect \u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  Being a Doula \u003cbr\u003e 4     Change Is All About Us \u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  Nope, Too Busy \u003cbr\u003e 5      Losses and the Calculus of Subtraction \u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  Look, It’\u003cbr\u003es a Course…\u003cbr\u003eIt’\u003cbr\u003es a Major…\u003cbr\u003eNo, It’\u003cbr\u003es SUPERMAJOR! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section IV:  Frustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6     The Cost Conundrum \u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  Forty Years in the Desert \u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  Touching the Third Rail \u003cbr\u003e 7     Barriers\u003cbr\u003e Faculty Voice:  Stepping into the Fray \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section V:  Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e 8     The Road Not Traveled \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563728695576,"sku":"9780813595023","price":23.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/making-sense-of-the-college-curriculum-faculty-stories-of-change-conflict-and-accommodation-hardback-9780813595023","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}