New PDF release: Class Not Dismissed: Reflections on Undergraduate Education

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By Anthony Aveni

ISBN-10: 1607323028

ISBN-13: 9781607323020

In Class no longer Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the private tale of his six many years in university school rooms and a few of the 10,000 scholars who've crammed them. via anecdotes of his personal triumphs and tribulations—some fun, others heartrending—Aveni finds his instructing tale and recommendations at the way forward for better education.

Although lately the lecture has come less than hearth as a pedagogical approach, Aveni ardently defends lecturing to scholars. He stocks his secrets and techniques on crafting an interesting lecture and growing efficient discussion at school discussions. He lays out his principles on lecture room self-discipline and tells how he promotes the misplaced paintings of listening. he's a passionate proponent of the liberal arts and center path specifications in addition to a believer in sound educating promoted by means of energetic scholarship.

Aveni is understood to his scholars as a consummate storyteller. In Class no longer Dismissed he stocks genuine tales approximately daily collage lifestyles that make clear severe academic concerns. the result's a funny, reflective, inviting, and robust inquiry into greater schooling that may be of curiosity to someone invested within the present and destiny country of faculty and collage education.

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