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ISBN: 9781771133340-07

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Classroom Practice and Student-Friendly Suggestions

Up Close and Personal

From: Degrees of Failure

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The university’s current malaise owes much to an emphasis on the bottom line, on the primacy of vocational training in combination with elements such as an increasingly predatory education at a distance. Yet it remains quite possible to at least mitigate the worst aspects of these developments by focusing our energies on restoring the higher learning in universities to its original meaning of a community of the whole focused on what unites us universally. This restoration would necessarily see high-tech education take a back seat to an in-person and personal approach to higher learning, a firm belief in the creation and exchange of knowledge as being, above all, a social activity.

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Randle W. Nelsen

Randle W. Nelsen has taught sociology in Canada and the United States for fifty years. He has written extensively on higher education, professionalism and bureaucratic work, and popular culture. He is the author of Fun & Games & Higher Education: The Lonely Crowd Revisited and Life of the Party: A Study in Sociability, Community, and Social Inequality.