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ISBN: 9781771133340-08

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Cleaning up the Mess

Putting Students and the Larger Community First

From: Degrees of Failure

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People involved in college and university teaching need to create a higher education version of thinking and acting locally at the classroom level, a vision that will move us towards the goal of connecting both global and local awareness and action for change. We need to renew and increase our reliance on fired-up teachers interacting with students face-to-face in classroom settings. We need to focus on recovering scholarly conversation unmediated by high-tech machinery.

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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.