The Social Worlds of Higher Education: Handbook for Teaching in a New Century

The Wabash Center

Author: Pescosolido, Bernice A. and Ronald Aminzade, eds.
Publisher: Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks, CA
ISBN: 0761986138
Table of Contents: Table of Contents
Teaching for What and for Whom? The Social Worlds and Structural Paradoxes of the University at the End of the 20th Century

Part One - Surveying the Social Landscape of Higher Education at the End of the 20th Century: Pressures From the Outside
The Debate: college teachers, the new leisure class by gene i. maeroff
ch. 1 Introduction to the Changing Landscape of Higher Education (Ronald Aminzade and Bernice A. Pescosolido)
ch. 2 The Changing Character of College (Craig Calhoun)
ch. 3 Higher Education and Its Social Contracts(Teresa Sullivan)
ch.4 How the Academic Profession is Changing (Arthur Levine)
ch.5 Small Worlds, Different Worlds (Burton R. Clark)
ch. 6 The Changing Classroom (Charles S. Green and Dean S. Dorn)

Part Two: Mapping Issues in the Social Worlds of Higher Education: Arguments From the Inside
The Debate: on the uses of a liberal education-- As lite Entertainment for Bored college students
section a
ch. 7 The War of the Worlds (Diane F. Halpern)
ch. 8 Creating Learning Communities (Paul Baker)
ch. 9 The Campus as Learning Community (Thomas A. Angelo)
ch. 10 Dissolution of the Atlas Complex (Stephen Monk)
ch. 11 Critical Thinking, Moral Integrity and Citizenshiip (Richard Paul)
ch. 12 Instructional Responsibilities of College Faculty to Minority Students ( James A Vasquez and Nancy Wainstein)
section b
ch. 13 Barbarians Inside the Gate? Why Undergraduates Always Seem Worse and Civilization as We Know It at the Brink (Norman Furniss)
ch. 14 On the Persistence of Unicorns (Craig E. Nelson)
ch. 15 Now I Know my ABC's (Jeremy Freese, Julie E. Artis, and Brian Powell)
ch. 16 The Evaluation of Teaching (Mary Dean Sorcinelli)
ch. 17 Behind Outcomes (Pat Hutchings)
taking on the canon and saving civilzation: statements from the culture war ch. 18 Multiculturalism (Patrick J. Hill)
ch. 19 Conflict in America (Gerald Graff)
ch. 20 Class Wars and Culture Wars in the University Today (Robert N. Bellah)
ch. 21 An Emerging Reformulation of "Competence" in an Increasingly Multicultural World (Troy Duster)
ch. 22 The Trouble with Stories (Charles Tilly)
ch. 23 Challenging Assumptions of Human Diversity (Carole E. Hill)
ch. 24 Teaching and Historical Understanding (Harvey J. Graff)
section c
ch. 25 Stop Making Sense! Why Aren't Universities Better at Promoting Innovative Teaching? (Sølvi Lillejord)
ch. 26 Three Faces of Relevance (David M. Newman)
ch. 27 Underneath the Ivy and the Social Costs of Corporate Ties (Lawrence C. Soley)
ch. 28 Disposable Faculty (Linda Ray Pratt)
the tenure debate
ch. 29 Is Tenure Necessary to Protect Academic Freedom? (Erwin Chemerinsky)
ch. 30 Why Tenure is Worth Protecting (Richard Edwards)
ch. 31 Academic Community and Post-Tenure Review (William G. Tierney)
ch. 32 Two Concepts of Affirmative Action (Steven M. Cahn)
ch. 33 Distributing Higher Education (Amy Gutmann)
the deabtes on student-faculty relations ch. 34 Eros, Eroticism and the Pedagogical Process (Bell Hooks)
ch. 35 Consensual Amorous Relations (Jane Gallop)
ch. 36 Putting an End to Risky Romance (Patrick Dilger)
ch. 37 Of Nerds, Ardent Suitors and Lecherous Professors (A. Pescosolido and Eleanor Miller)
section d ch. 38 Doing What Works (Daniel F. Chambliss)
ch. 39 Teaching and Learning, A Matter of Style? (Gerald T. Powers)
ch. 40 Building Trust with Students (Stephen Bookfield)
ch. 41 Embracing Contraries in the Teaching Process (Peter Elbow)
the debates on the ownership of knowledge ch. 42 Stages of Curriculum Transformation (Susan R. Van Dyne)
ch. 43 Getting All Students to Listen (Elizabeth Higginbotham)
ch. 44 Should and Can a White, Heterosexual Middle-Class Man Teach Students about Social Inequality and Oppression? One Person's Experience and Reflections (Thomas J. Gerschick)
ch. 45 Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy (Elizabeth Ellsworth)
ch. 46 View from the Inside (Brian Ault)
the forgotten journey to the classroom ch. 47 The Heart of a Teacher (Parker J. Palmer)
ch. 48 Entering the Classroom from the Other Side (Jean Harold Shin, Walter R. Jacobs, Sara C. Hare)
ch. 49 Embracing Modest Hopes (Kent L. Sandstrom)
ch. 50 Carl's Story (Diane Gillespie)
ch. 51 Promise, Failure and Redemption (Howard Aldrich)

Part Three - Charting the Landscape of Higher Education in the 21st Century
The Debate: the student and the univeristy allan bloom
ch. 52 Continuing Trends or Future Transformations? (Craig Calhoun)
ch. 53 Rethinking Faculty Careers (R. Eugene Rice)
ch. 54 From Teaching to Learning (Robert B. Barr and John Tagg)
ch. 55 Beyond These Walls (Elizabeth Grauerholz, Mary Romero, and Brett Mckenzie
Reconstructing the Social Worlds of Higher Education

This is the first comprehensive guide to teaching in the social sciences ever published. "Two complete works in one" provides a survey of the larger institutional context and alternative perspectives on current debates in higher education, as well as a comprehensive and practical guide to teaching. Contains original essays by leading teachers and scholars including Craig Calhoun, Teresa Sullivan, Dean Dorn, Paul Baker, Charles Tilly, Howard Aldrich, Daniel Chambliss, and Mary Romero. The accompanying Fieldguide for Teaching includes an addition 80 articles, excerpts, teaching tips, exercises, checklists, and overheads covering a complete spectrum of teaching concerns. (From the Publisher)