Education, Academia

20 Jul 2008 16:49

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I'm quite aware that the two are by no means synonymous.

See also: University Industrial Complex

Recommended:
• Malcolm Gladwell, "Examined Life," New Yorker 17 Dec. 2001 [online]
• Susan Haack, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays [Esp. the last two essays. Review: Haack Philosophy, or, Pseudodoxia Epidemica Academicæ]
• Richard F. Hamilton, The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
• Shin-Kap Han, "Tribal regimes in academia: a comparative analysis of market structure across disciplines", Social Networks 25 (2003): 251--280
• E. D. Hirsch
  • "Classroom Research and Cargo Cults," Policy Review 115 (October 2002) [Online]
  • Cultural Literacy
  • The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them
• Russell Jacoby, Dogmatic Wisdom
• Susanne Lohmann, "Darwinian Medicine for the University" [PDF. Drawn from her book-in-progress, How Universities Think]
• Alexander Star (ed.), Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca

To read:
• Paul R. Abramson, Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience [blurb]
• Clifford Adelman, Tourists in Our Own Land [The awful truth about what American undergraduates actually study]
• Charles W. Anderson, Prescribing the Life of the Mind: An Essay on the Purpose of the University, the Aims of Liberal Education, the Competence of Citizens, and the Cultivation of Practical Reason [Blurb]
• Michael W. Apple, Educating the "Right" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality
• Benjamin Barber, An Aristocracy of Everyone
• Jacques Barzun, Begin Here
• Derek Bok
  • Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More [Blurb, links to introduction and first chapter]
  • Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education
• Caplow and McGee, The Academic Marketplace
• Burton R. Clark, Places of Inquiry: Research and Advanced Education in Modern Universities
• William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University [Blurb]
• Raffaella Cribiore, Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt [Blurb]
• Larry Cuban, The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses [blurb]
• James J. Duderstadt and Farris W. Womack, The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads [Blurb]
• Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much
• Kieran Egan, The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
• Michael Faia, The Character of Our Content: Satirical Inquiries into the Higher Learning [Online via Prof. Faia's homepage]
• Harold Fromm, Academic Capitalism
• James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
• Mark Gradstein, Moshe Jutman and Volker Meier, The Political Economy of Education: Implications for Growth and Inequality ["a theoretical framework for analyzing the complex relationship of education, growth, and income distribution"]
• Gerlad Graff, Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
• W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson, The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling [Blurb]
• Kaye Haw, Educating Muslim Girls: Shifting Discourses
• James Hynes, Publish and Perish
• Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University
• David F. Labaree, How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education
• Ellen C. Lagemann, Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research
• Meira Levinson, The Demands of Liberal Education
• Kimball + McClellan, Education and The New America
• Douglas S. Massey, Camille Z. Charles, Garvey F. Lundy, and Mary J. Fischer, The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities ["Drawing on a major new source of data... a comprehensive analysis of the diverse pathways by which whites, African Americans, Latinos, and Asians enter American higher education. .... They show that black and Latino students do not enter college disadvantaged by a lack of self-esteem. In fact, overconfidence is more common than low self-confidence among some minority students. Despite this, minority students are adversely affected by racist stereotypes of intellectual inferiority. Although academic preparation is the strongest predictor of college performance, shortfalls in academic preparation are themselves largely a matter of socioeconomic disadvantage and racial segregation." Full blurb, ch. 1]
• Kate McGilly, Classroom Lessons: Integrative Cognitive Theory and Classroom Practice [Blurb, sample chapters]
• Douglas D. Noble, The Classroom Arsenal: Military Research, Information Technology, and Public Education
• George Dennis O'Brien, All the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education
• Robert O'Neil, Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University [Blurb]
• Julie A. Reuben, The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality
• Deborah L. Rhode, In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture
• John E. Roemer, Democracy, Education, and Equality
• Edward Shils, The Calling of Education: "The Academic Ethic" and Other Essays on Higher Education
• Murray Sperber, Beer and Circuses
• Kurt VanLehn, Mind Bugs: The Origins of Procedural Misconceptions [Blurb]
• Rebecca Zwick, Fair Game? The Use of Standardized Admission Tests in Higher Education