Title The community college and the good society : how the liberal arts were undermined and what we can do to bring them back / Chad Hanson

Published New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 148 pages) Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What are Community Colleges For? -- The Organization of This Book -- Change on Campus -- Political Culture: The Quiet Shift toward Job Training -- The Stage for a Debate -- Hamilton and the Hierarchical Society -- Jefferson and Popular Sovereignty -- The People�s College -- The Hamiltonian Turn -- Organizational Beliefs and Values: The Learning College Movement -- A Sample of the Learning College Literature -- Hostility toward Academic Norms, Roles, and Values -- The Consequence of Shifting from Education to Learning ConclusionEducational Practices: Competency- Based Education -- The Deskilling of Two-Year College Teaching -- WIDS and Competency-Based Education -- The Elements of Deskilling or Proletarianization -- Conclusion -- External Forces and Their Impact -- Government Agencies: The U.S. Department of Education -- Explanations for the Move toward Job Training -- Relative Autonomy of the State -- The Twenty-First Century Community College -- Conclusion -- Professional Organizations: The American Association of Community Colleges -- Intermediary Organizations AACC Culture and ValuesThe Legacy -- The Twenty-First-Century Agenda -- Conclusion -- The Promise of the Arts and Sciences -- Mission and Purpose: The Community College Baccalaureate -- The Debate over the Baccalaureate -- Community Colleges and the History of Higher Education -- The Community College�s Cultural Role -- Conclusion -- Pedagogy: The Town Hall Meeting as a Teaching Method -- The Struggle to Encourage Democratic Teaching Methods -- It�s Not What You Teach�It�s How You Teach It -- The Town Hall Meeting as a Teaching Method -- Assessment ConclusionEpilogue: The Twenty- First- Century College -- The Liberal Arts Are Competitive in the Marketplace -- The Liberal Arts Are Public -- Conclusion -- References -- Index Summary "The aim of The Community College and the Good Society is to critically analyze the internal changes and external forces that shifted the focus of the two-year college - from the liberal arts to job training."--Inside jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Community colleges -- History Community colleges -- Planning Educational change. Education, Humanistic. Vocational education. Vocational Education EDUCATION -- Higher. Community colleges Community colleges -- Planning Education, Humanistic Educational change Vocational education Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781412843324 1412843324

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