The Instruction Myth: Why Higher Education Is Hard to Change, and How to Change It - Couverture rigide

Tagg, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1978804458 ISBN 13 : 9781978804456

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Higher education is broken, and we haven't been able to fix it. Even in the face of great and growing dysfunction, it seems resistant to fundamental change. At this point, can anything be done to save it?

The Instruction Myth argues that yes, higher education can be reformed and reinvigorated, but it will not be an easy process. In fact, it will require universities to abandon their central operating principle, the belief that education revolves around instruction, easily measurable in course syllabi, credits, and enrollments. Acclaimed education scholar John Tagg presents a powerful case that instruction alone is worthless and that universities should instead be centered upon student learning, which is far harder to quantify and standardize. Yet, as he shows, decades of research have indicated how to best promote student learning, but few universities have systematically implemented these suggestions.

This book demonstrates why higher education must undergo radical change if it hopes to survive. More importantly, it offers specific policy suggestions for how universities can break their harmful dependence on the instruction myth. In this extensively researched book, Tagg offers a compelling diagnosis of what's ailing American higher education and a prescription for how it might still heal itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

JOHN TAGG is a professor emeritus of English at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. He is the author of The Learning Paradigm College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1978804458
• ISBN 13: 9781978804456
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 342
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible