Author : Kathleen F. McConnell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793609624
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Book Synopsis Advocating Heightened Education by : Kathleen F. McConnell
Download or read book Advocating Heightened Education written by Kathleen F. McConnell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colleges and universities face unprecedented pressure to streamline and reduce their infrastructure. A new generation of reformers, frustrated by bureaucratic obstacles and rising costs, dream of education without schools. Those reforms, if realized, promise to render education indistinguishable from other social spheres. Advocating Heightened Education mobilizes situated theories of learning to advocate the labor and expense that goes into maintaining campuses. Higher education’s bulky and incommensurable institutions—from the community colleges and Ivy Leagues to the regional public universities and small liberal arts campuses—serve a critical modality. They ensure that educational forms remain visible and available for critique. Their diversity of form retains the possibility of divergent and transformative educational futures. This ethnographic and archival study of two alternative campuses, The Evergreen State College and California State University, Monterey Bay, illustrates how educators advocate their work by heightening its visibility and by modeling appreciation for situated teaching and inquiry. It provides examples of those advocacy techniques with stories of professional life and close readings of historical documents that include institutional and legislative reports, facilities memoranda, and course descriptions. These materials offer a vibrant counter-narrative to reform movements that seek to standardize the college experience. Scholars of higher education, pedagogy, and communication will find this book particularly interesting.