As if learning mattered : reforming higher education
Although the culture wars have preoccupied the nation for the past two decades, these impassioned debates about the function of education have produced few lasting institutional changes. Writing with wit and precision, Richard E. Miller shows why the system of higher education has been particularly resistant to reform. Unraveling stereotypes about conservative, liberal, and radical reform efforts, Miller looks at what has actually happened when theories about education have been put into practice
x, 249 pages ; 24 cm
9780801434839, 9780801485282, 0801434831, 0801485282
37890405
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