Education, Academia
09 Sep 2024 16:14I'm quite aware that the two are by no means synonymous.
- See also:
- Computers in Education
- Teaching Statistics
- Transmission of Inequality
- Value-Added Measures in Education
- University Industrial Complex
- Recommended (very misc.):
- Susan A. Ambrose, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro, Marsha C. Lovett and Marie K. Norman, How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
- John Bound and Gary Solon, "Double trouble: on the value of twins-based estimation of the return to schooling", Economics of Education Review 18 (1999): 169--182 [Preprint: ssrn/226374]
- Douglas B. Downey, How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
- 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
- G. E. R. Lloyd, Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation
- Susanne Lohmann, "Darwinian Medicine for the University" [PDF. Drawn from her book-in-progress, How Universities Think]
- John McGowan, Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics
- Alexander Star (ed.), Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca
- Philip B. Stark and Richard Freishtat, "An Evaluation of Course Evaluations" [PDF preprint via Prof. Stark]
- Not entirely recommended:
- Stanley Fish, Save the World on Your Own Time
- To read:
- Paul R. Abramson, Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience
- 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
- Michael W. Apple, Educating the "Right" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality
- James L. Axtell, Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
- Ken Bain [I hope he collected a matched sample of bad, or at
least less-than-ideal, teachers and students before writing these]
- What the Best College Teachers Do
- What the Best College Students Do
- Benjamin Barber, An Aristocracy of Everyone
- Jacques Barzun, Begin Here
- William J. Baumol, The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't
- Christopher Bjork, High-Stakes Schooling: What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform
- Derek Bok
- Higher Education in America
- Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More
- Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education
- William G. Bowen, Derek Bok et al., The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
- William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos and Michael S. McPherson, Crossing the Finish Line; Completing College at America's Public Universities
- David Bromwich, Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking (1992) [2022 interview with Bromwich]
- Caplow and McGee, The Academic Marketplace
- Camille Z. Charles, Mary J. Fischer, Margarita A. Mooney, Douglas S. Massey, Gniesha Dinwiddie and Brooke Cunningham, Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
- Burton R. Clark, Places of Inquiry: Research and Advanced Education in Modern Universities
- William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
- Raffaella Cribiore, Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
- Larry Cuban, The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses
- Sherman Dorn, Accountability Frankenstein [Author's blurb]
- James J. Duderstadt and Farris W. Womack, The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads
- Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much
- Kieran Egan, The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
- Susan Engel, The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood
- Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford with Chang Young Chung, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life
- 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
- Edie N. Goldenberg and John G. Cross, Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education (2009)
- 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
- Anthony Grafton, Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
- W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson, The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling
- Kevin D. Haggerty and Aaron Doyle, 57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School: Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students
- Kaye Haw, Educating Muslim Girls: Shifting Discourses
- James Hynes, Publish and Perish
- Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University
- James T. Kinard and Alex Kozulin, Rigorous Mathematical Thinking: Conceptual Formation in the Mathematics Classroom
- William C. Kirby, Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China
- Philip Kitcher, The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education
- Stephen Kosack, The Education of Nations: How the Political Organization of the Poor, Not Democracy, Led Governments to Invest in Mass Education
- David F. Labaree
- A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
- 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
- Franco Landriscina, Simulation and Learning: A Model-Centered Approach
- Meira Levinson, The Demands of Liberal Education
- 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
- Donald L. McCabe, Kenneth D. Butterfield and Linda K. Treviño, Cheating in College: Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It
- Kate McGilly, Classroom Lessons: Integrative Cognitive Theory and Classroom Practice
- "Rebekah Nathan", My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student ["An anthropology teacher at a large university tells what happens when, after 15 years of teaching, she decides to do what anthropologists do when confused by a different culture (in this case, her students): she enrolls as a freshman, moves into the dorm, and takes a full load of courses."]
- National Research Council, Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science and Engineering
- 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
- David R. Olson, Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society
- Robert O'Neil, Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University
- Jan L. Plass, Roxana Moreno and Roland Brünken (eds.), Cognitive Load Theory
- Sean F. Reardon, Demetra Kalogrides, and Kenneth Shores, "The Geography of Racial/Ethnic Test Score Gaps", American Journal of Sociology 124 (2019): 1164--1221
- Sarah Reckhow, Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics
- Frederick Reif, Applying Cognitive Science to Education: Thinking and Learning in Scientific and Other Complex Domains
- 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
- Annalisa Sannino (ed.), Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory
- Rosemary C. Saolomone, Visions of Schooling: Conscience, Community, and Common Education
- Julia Schleck, Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism [Review by J. W. Scott, with other books on academic freedom]
- Joan Wallach Scott, Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom
- 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
- Geoffrey T. Wodtke, Ugur Yildirim, David J. Harding, and Felix Elwert, "Are Neighborhood Effects Explained by Differences in School Quality?", American Journal of Sociology 128 (2023): 1472--1528
- Rebecca Zwick, Fair Game? The Use of Standardized Admission Tests in Higher Education