Books > Social sciences
|
Buy Now
Are You Smart Enough? - How Colleges' Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students (Paperback)
Loot Price: R825
Discovery Miles 8 250
|
|
Are You Smart Enough? - How Colleges' Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
This book explores the many ways in which the obsession with
“being smart” distorts the life of a typical college or
university, and how this obsession leads to a higher education that
shortchanges the majority of students, and by extension our
society’s need for an educated population. The author calls on
his colleagues in higher education to return the focus to the true
mission of developing the potential of each student: However
“smart” they are when they get to college, both the student and
the college should be able to show what they learned while there.
Unfortunately, colleges and universities have embraced two very
narrow definitions of smartness: the course grade and especially
the standardized test. A large body of research shows that it will
be very difficult for colleges to fulfill their stated mission
unless they substantially broaden their conception to include
student qualities such as leadership, social responsibility,
honesty, empathy, and citizenship. Specifically, the book grapples
with issues such as the following: Why America’s 3,000-plus
colleges and universities have evolved into a hierarchical pecking
order, where institutions compete with each other to recruit
“smart” students, and where a handful of elite institutions at
the top of the pecking order enroll the “smartest” students.
Why higher education favors its smartest students to the point
where the “not so smart” students get second-class treatment.
Why so many colleges find it difficult to make good on their
commitment to affirmative action and “equality of opportunity.”
Why college faculties tend to value being smart more than
developing students’ smartness (i.e., teaching and learning).
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.