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"What a delight to read David Gooblar's book on teaching and
learning. He wraps important insights into a story of discovery and
adventure." -Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do
College is changing, but the way we train academics is not. Most
professors are taught to be researchers first and teachers a
distant second, even as scholars are increasingly expected to excel
in the classroom. There has been a revolution in teaching and
learning over the past generation, and we now have a whole new
understanding of how the brain works and how students learn. The
Missing Course offers a field guide to the state-of-the-art in
teaching and learning and is packed with insights to help students
learn in any discipline. Wary of the folk wisdom of the faculty
lounge, David Gooblar builds his lessons on the newest findings and
years of experience. From active-learning strategies to ways of
designing courses to get students talking, The Missing Course walks
you through the fundamentals of the student-centered classroom, one
in which the measure of success is not how well you lecture but how
much your students actually learn. "Warm and empirically based,
comprehensive but accessible, student-centered and also scientific.
We're so lucky to have Gooblar as a guide." -Sarah Rose Cavanagh,
author of The Spark of Learning "Goes beyond critique, offering a
series of activities, approaches, and strategies that instructors
can implement. His wise and necessary book is a long defense of the
idea that a university can be a site of the transformation of self
and society." -Los Angeles Review of Books "An invaluable source of
insight and wisdom on what it means to work with students. We've
needed this book for a long time." -John Warner, author of Why They
Can't Write
Professors know a lot, but they are rarely taught how to teach. The
author of the Chronicle of Higher Education's popular "Pedagogy
Unbound" column explains everything you need to know to be a
successful college instructor. College is changing, but the way we
train academics is not. Most professors are still trained to be
researchers first and teachers a distant second, even as scholars
are increasingly expected to excel in the classroom. There has been
a revolution in teaching and learning over the past generation, and
we now have a whole new understanding of how the brain works and
how students learn. But most academics have neither the time nor
the resources to catch up to the latest research or train
themselves to be excellent teachers. The Missing Course offers
scholars at all levels a field guide to the state of the art in
teaching and learning and is packed with invaluable insights to
help students learn in any discipline. Wary of the folk wisdom of
the faculty lounge, David Gooblar builds his lessons on the newest
findings and years of experience. From active-learning strategies
to course design to getting students talking, The Missing Course
walks you through the fundamentals of the student-centered
classroom, one in which the measure of success is not how well you
lecture but how much students learn. Along the way, readers will
find ideas and tips they can use in their classrooms right away.
Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth's
retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature
and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014
would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This
collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way.
Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars
in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both
relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind
to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roth's works and career; it
considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it
speculates on Roth's legacy-particularly the enduring quality of
his novels that will continue to resonate long after his
retirement.
Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth's
retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature
and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014
would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This
collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way.
Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars
in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both
relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind
to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roth's works and career; it
considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it
speculates on Roth's legacy-particularly the enduring quality of
his novels that will continue to resonate long after his
retirement.
This title contains an excellent account and reflection on each
diverse stage of Philip Roth's fifty-year career. Fifty years into
Philip Roth's career, agreement has not yet been reached on the
nature of his achievement. Is he the post-war Jewish-American
writer par excellence, or a hyphenless American, commentator of
American experience? Is he the faithful defender of the realist
tradition, a citizen of the world, or the playful postmodernist?
"The Major Phases of Philip Roth" confronts his remarkable
diversity by accounting for each stage of Rothian preoccupation,
from the comedy and seriousness to the Judaism and psychoanalysis.
This refreshing study is not intent on locating a single unifying
theme. Featuring fresh readings of now-canonical texts and a new
telling of post-war American cultural narratives, David Gooblar
reveals the changing face of liberalism, the rise of the New York
Intellectuals and the legacies of the Holocaust. By accounting for
Roth's multiplicity, his alternation between opposing modes and his
stubborn commitment to counter-intuition, Gooblar explains what it
is that makes Roth so rewarding, so central to post-war American
literary cultural narratives and so reflective of America itself.
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