The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time Series)
by:
Louis Menand (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780594011637 (0594011639)
Publish date: January 18th 2010
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Pages no: 174
Edition language: English
This is a must-read for anyone currently or formerly teaching in the humanities. Menand gives a history of general education and the evolution of how universities have come to decide what is "higher education;" as someone who has tried to form a teaching philosophy in the ever-changing landscape of...