Anthony Aveni

Class Not Dismissed

Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts

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Produktbeschreibung

In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations--some amusing, others heartrending--Aveni reveals his teaching story and thoughts on the future of higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Up Colorado
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781607323020
• ISBN-10: 1607323028
• Artikelnr.: 40201374

Autorenporträt

Anthony Aveni is Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American Studies at Colgate University, where he has taught since 1963, and one of the founders of cultural astronomy. Aveni was voted National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in Washington, DC, and named one of the ten best professors in the United States by Rolling Stone in 1991. At Colgate he has received, among other teaching awards, the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching (1997), the Balmuth Teaching Award (2011), and the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society's Distinguished Teaching Award voted by the Freshman Class of 1990. In 2013, he was awarded the Fryxell Medal for Interdisciplinary Research by the Society of American Archaeologists.