College Teaching
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students of education and higher education seeking early theories of college teaching
- College faculty and teaching-development staff seeking a historical perspective on teaching philosophy
- Scholars and enthusiasts of early twentieth-century education history
- Readers with strong English skills willing to work through public-domain academic texts
Not a good fit for
- Instructors seeking modern classroom techniques they can apply directly
- Ordinary readers who find English difficult and need a Chinese translation
- Readers focused on contemporary education policy and empirical research
Reading tips
- Read the table of contents and preface first to grasp the overall framework, then closely read the chapters relevant to your own teaching.
- After each chapter, write a page noting how its arguments compare with today's teaching practice, building a historical comparison.
- Read alongside modern works on teaching methods, and avoid taking the book's views as current recommendations.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Paul Klapper (1885–1952) was an American educator and the first president of Queens College of the City University of New York. Public information about his life is limited, and only one of his works, College Teaching, is held in the collection. Judging from its title and subject, Klapper focused on the practice of teaching in higher education rather than on purely theoretical speculation about education, which fits his background as a university administrator in close contact with day-to-day teaching. The book addresses college teachers and education researchers, discussing classroom methods and problems in a practical, concrete manner rather than building an abstract system. Because his published output is small, his influence on the history of educational thought is not wide; his writings are better seen as a partial record of early twentieth-century American research on college teaching, offering some reference value for understanding contemporary concerns about teaching quality in higher education.
