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Accountability, pragmatic aims, and the American university, Ana M. Martínez Alemán

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [117]-127) and index

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Accountability, pragmatic aims, and the American university

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Ana M. Martínez Alemán

"Accountability, Pragmatic Aims, and the American University frames the debates on teaching and learning accountability in Higher Education. By examining significant historic periods in Higher Education, Martínez-Alemán explores the present apprehension about accountability in today's colleges and universities. Throughout the book's chapters, Martínez-Alemán uses the Pragmatic philosophy of John Dewey to enlighten current understandings of professional freedoms and she also discusses democratic imperatives in light of accountability obligations: the teaching of undergraduates, data and empirical research on college teaching and learning, and the institutional policies for graduate student and faculty teaching development. This book reveals the tensions between the democratic character of the university-qualities that may seem irreconcilable with accountability metrics-and the corporate or managerial economies of modern American universities. Higher Education faculty, administrators, public policy makers, and students enrolled in Higher Education Masters and PhD programs will find that this book informs their practice and will serve to contribute to the debates on accountability for years to come"--Book Jacket

Introduction -- The American university's democratic aims -- The academic profession transforms -- Teaching in the managed university -- The rise of managerialism -- The legacy of the transformative era -- Epilogue: pragmatic sensibility and resolutionsIntroduction -- The democratic purposes of the American university -- The emergence and transformation of the academic profession : the roots of our discontent -- Teaching, professionalization and the managed university -- The rise of managerialism -- The legacy of the transformative era : accountability and the erosion of professional autonomy -- Epilogue: pragmatic sensibility and resolutions