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Aspiring Adults Adrift
Richard Arum
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Description for Aspiring Adults Adrift
Paperback. Built on interviews and detailed surveys of almost a thousand recent college graduates from a diverse range of colleges and universities, this book reveals a generation facing a difficult transition to adulthood. It compels us to re-examine the aims, approaches, and achievements of higher education. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 halftones, 19 line drawings, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses - and newspaper opinion pages - as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 landmark study of undergraduates' learning, socialization, and study habits, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. From the moment it was published, one thing was clear: no university could afford to ignore its well-documented and disturbing findings about the failings of undergraduate education. Now Arum and Roksa are back, and their new book follows the same cohort of undergraduates through the rest of their college careers and out into the working ... Read more
Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses - and newspaper opinion pages - as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 landmark study of undergraduates' learning, socialization, and study habits, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. From the moment it was published, one thing was clear: no university could afford to ignore its well-documented and disturbing findings about the failings of undergraduate education. Now Arum and Roksa are back, and their new book follows the same cohort of undergraduates through the rest of their college careers and out into the working ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226197289
SKU
V9780226197289
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About Richard Arum
Richard Arum is professor in the Department of Sociology with a joint appointment in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Josipa Roksa is associate professor of sociology and education and Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the ... Read more
Reviews for Aspiring Adults Adrift
"Seriously researched, rich in data.... They excavate a world of ugly facts and unsatisfactory practices that has the gritty look and feel of reality-a reality that has little to do with the glossy hype of world university ratings.... In Academically Adrift, Arum and Roksa paint a chilling portrait of what the university curriculum has become." (Anthony Grafton, New York Review ... Read more