Beach Books: 2017-2018. What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read outside Class?

Autor/in	Randall, David
Institution	National Association of Scholars (NAS)
Titel	Beach Books: 2017-2018. What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read outside Class?
Quelle	(2018), (585 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-9986635-7-9
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; College Students; Recreational Reading; Reading Programs; Books; Reading Assignments; Institutional Characteristics; Educational Objectives; Literary Genres; Program Administration; Reading Material Selection; College Faculty + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Häusliche Lektüre; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Literarische Form; Fakultät
Abstract	The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has analyzed college common readings since 2010. Common reading selections partly reflect the constraints on their selection committees. Each year colleges admit large number of students who have not yet read a college-level book and some of whom have never read a full-length adult book at all. Faculty and staff members on selection committees all over the country have reported this problem. Another constraint is that common reading programs largely leave students the voluntary choice of whether to read the common readings, and there is no academic requirement to motivate students to read the assigned book. College common reading committees overwhelmingly prefer to select their readings from a narrow subsection of books: politically progressive, designed to promote activism, confined to American authors, literarily mediocre, juvenile, recently published, and mostly nonfiction. Non-academic mission statements steer selection committees away from intellectually challenging books toward books that promote progressive belief and/or activism; the selection committees are usually run or dominated by activist "co-curricular" administrators rather than professors; and common reading programs are frequently integrated with programs of servicelearning and civic engagement, which are designed to promote student activism rather than to educate students to think. "Beach Books 2017-2018" collects intensive data on 498 college common reading selections in 2017-2018 at 481 institutions, but it also surveys eleven years of college common reading programs, between 2007-2008 and 2017-2018. The report presents this data in part to the American public as a whole, to support its efforts to reform college common reading programs. "Beach Books 2017-2018" is organized into the following sections: (1) an introductory essay summarizing the report's conclusions; (2) an analysis of the 2017-2018 selections, including explorations of the implications of the #MeToo movement for common reading selections; (3) an analysis of the eleven years of selections between 2007/2008 and 2017/2018; (4) recommendations for how to reform college common reading programs; and (5) appendices with our full data, including an expanded list of 140 books the NAS recommends for colleges and universities with common reading programs. [For the previous edition, "Beach Books: 2016-2017. What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read outside Class?," see ED580915.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01