Education, Academia

01 Apr 2013 16:25

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

See also: University Industrial Complex

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]
John McGowan, Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics
Alexander Star (ed.), Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca

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
William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos and Michael S. McPherson, Crossing the Finish Line; Completing College at America's Public Universities [blurb, ch. 1]
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]
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 [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
Anthony Grafton, Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West [Blurb]
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
Franco Landriscina, Simulation and Learning: A Model-Centered Approach
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]
Frederick Reif, Applying Cognitive Science to Education: Thinking and Learning in Scientific and Other Complex Domains [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
Rosemary C. Saolomone, Visions of Schooling: Conscience, Community, and Common Education
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