EPISODE · Nov 7, 2024 · 23 MIN
3.5 Scott Gelber - Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy? (RHE)
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On today's episode, we talk with Scott Gelber, a professor of education who currently serves as chair of the Education Department at Wheaton College about his recent article for Review of Higher Education is titled "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" and discuss the origins of the idea "academic freedom" and how it's considered regarding pedagogy today. "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" is available to read for free on Project MUSE through 30 November 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/937142 About Scott Gelber https://departments.wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/scott-gelber/ Scott Gelber is a historian whose work focuses on the development of American education during the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. He is the author of Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of American College Access, 1860-1960 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), and The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), which won the Linda Eisenmann Prize of the History of Education Society. Gelber has published articles and essays in the American Journal of Education, American Journal of Legal History, Journal of Social History, and History of Education Quarterly, among others. His research has been supported by the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is working on two research projects: a history of learning disabilities and a study of federal financial aid during the New Deal. Before arriving at Wheaton, Gelber taught high school in New York City and supervised student teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Scott Gelber - Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12156/grading-college Scott Gelber - Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of College Access, 1860−1960 https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/11347/courtrooms-and-classrooms Jonathan Zimmerman - The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12000/amateur-hour
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On today's episode, we talk with Scott Gelber, a professor of education who currently serves as chair of the Education Department at Wheaton College about his recent article for Review of Higher Education is titled "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" and discuss the origins of the idea "academic freedom" and how it's considered regarding pedagogy today. "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" is available to read for free on Project MUSE through 30 November 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/937142 About Scott Gelber https://departments.wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/scott-gelber/ Scott Gelber is a historian whose work focuses on the development of American education during the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. He is the author of Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of American College Access, 1860-1960 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), and The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), which won the Linda Eisenmann Prize of the History of Education Society. Gelber has published articles and essays in the American Journal of Education, American Journal of Legal History, Journal of Social History, and History of Education Quarterly, among others. His research has been supported by the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is working on two research projects: a history of learning disabilities and a study of federal financial aid during the New Deal. Before arriving at Wheaton, Gelber taught high school in New York City and supervised student teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Scott Gelber - Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12156/grading-college Scott Gelber - Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of College Access, 1860−1960 https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/11347/courtrooms-and-classrooms Jonathan Zimmerman - The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12000/amateur-hour
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