{"product_id":"fixing-college-education-a-new-curriculum-for-the-twenty-first-century-9780813928159","title":"Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince his early days at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was fired for refusing to sign a loyalty oath during the Red Scare, Charles Muscatine has been a dedicated teacher and higher education reformer. Upon his reinstatement at Berkeley, he founded \"Strawberry Creek College,\" a six-year experiment using full professors and small classes to teach lower-division students. Drawing on this belief in undergraduate teaching, Muscatine's new book now offers a radical new design for American college education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuscatine begins with the observation that the mediocre undergraduate curriculum offered by most colleges and universities today is based on outdated ideas of what should be taught and what constitutes good teaching. Although Muscatine is himself a well-established research scholar, he contends that the publish-or-perish \"research religion\" of college and university faculties has seriously damaged undergraduate education. He offers a clear distinction between publishable research and the scholarship necessary for good teaching. Furthermore, he recommends major changes in the education of professors, including reconsidering both the requirement of the book-length dissertation and the current organization of graduate departments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFixing College Education\u003c\/i\u003e predicts new roles for students and faculty, redefines educational breadth and depth, and calls for deeper assessment of learning and teaching. Muscatine highlights the outstanding colleges and universities, including Harvard, Boston University's University Professor's Program, Evergreen State College, and Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, that have already remade their curricula successfully or adopted features like the ones he proposes. Muscatine argues that the new curriculum is better able than the old to produce good scholars and good citizens for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813928159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.82w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2009 pg. 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/05\/2010 pg. 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2009 pg. 213\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Charles Muscatine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52146977636533,"sku":"9780813928159","price":29.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_21e0fce9-3ec0-49f2-ae8e-248a274e2094.jpg?v=1767678290","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fixing-college-education-a-new-curriculum-for-the-twenty-first-century-9780813928159","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}