Our Underachieving Colleges

德雷克·博克，1968年开始担任哈佛大学法学院院长，1971－1991年任哈佛大学校长。2005年前任教于哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院和教育学院。2006年，萨默斯卸任后，担任了一年的哈佛大学临时校长，目前已退休。

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Derek Bok

页数:440

出版时间:2008-1-15

价格:USD 30.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780691136189

图书标签:教育高等教育美国大学美國哈佛大学校长Derek_Bok大學

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Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning. Large majorities of college seniors do not feel that they have made substantial progress in speaking a foreign language, acquiring cultural and aesthetic interests, or learning what they need to know to become active and informed citizens. Overall, despite their vastly increased resources, more powerful technology, and hundreds of new courses, colleges cannot be confident that students are learning more than they did fifty years ago.Looking further, Bok finds that many important college courses are left to the least experienced teachers and that most professors continue to teach in ways that have proven to be less effective than other available methods. In reviewing their educational programs, however, faculties typically ignore this evidence. Instead, they spend most of their time discussing what courses to require, although the lasting impact of college will almost certainly depend much more on how the courses are taught. In his final chapter, Bok describes the changes that faculties and academic leaders can make to help students accomplish more. Without ignoring the contributions that America's colleges have made, Bok delivers a powerful critique - one that educators will ignore at their peril.

读后感

初读完这本书，我便想说一说我的大学。虽然现在只是大一，但也不知不觉过完了大学的八分之一。首先很幸运的是，我来到了我自己选的工科院校，并且也来到了我自己选的专业。一切貌似都很幸运，像开过光一样，但事实并非如此。我发现大学并不是我想的那样，我曾想我可以在大学狠...  

初读完这本书，我便想说一说我的大学。虽然现在只是大一，但也不知不觉过完了大学的八分之一。首先很幸运的是，我来到了我自己选的工科院校，并且也来到了我自己选的专业。一切貌似都很幸运，像开过光一样，但事实并非如此。我发现大学并不是我想的那样，我曾想我可以在大学狠...  

今年刚读完大一，想明白一下我们大学生在学校里到底应该掌握什么知识，于是就读了这本书。感觉蛮好的。作为哈佛的校长，他所写出的东西应该是完全可信的，无须怀疑。 蛮有特点的是作者回顾了以前的美国大学教育历史，让人意识到大学的发展也是有个过程的，或许这就是我们中...