Using as a framework the theory of careers developed by John L. Holland the authors of this volume examine the patterns of student stability and change inherent in the college experience as well as the variations in professional attitudes and behaviors of college faculty. Their goal is to learn more about what colleges and universities might do to facilitate the retention satisfaction and learning of their students. For example why should faculties split over student-oriented teaching strategies one group favoring the formal structured classroom the other a freer more spontaneous environment? Why do some undergraduates become independent thinkers with strong analytical mathematical and scientific competencies while others develop powerful interpersonal and group leadership skills? Holland s theory--at its core a person-environment fit theory--assumes that there are six personality types and six analogous academic environments and that the educational persistence satisfaction and achievement of students are a function of the congruence or fit between students and their academic environments. The authors also assume that there are circumstances under which the environments of the major field exert more influence on students than do the students own personality traits. Applying Holland s theory to distinctive clusters of academic disciplines the authors have found that the answers to such fundamental questions as those asked above emanate from a basic understanding of the influences of academic disciplines and the manner by which they shape the patterns of thought and behavior of both college students and faculty. Academic Disciplines will benefit researchers and graduate students who study college students and faculty as well as administrators and policymakers responsible for the performance of colleges and universities.

Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author to be sure had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father a relative underachiever scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James. But young Henry born in Boston in 1838 was destined for a walk-on role in his nation s history--and seemed alarmingly aware of the fact from the time he was an adolescent. For the author could neither match his exalted ancestors nor dismiss them as dusty relics--he was an Adams after all formed from the same 18th-century clay. Henry sat on the sidelines throughout the conflict of the Civil War serving as his father s private secretary and anxiously negotiating the minefields of English society. He then returned home and commenced a long career as a journalist historian novelist and peripheral participant in the political process--a kind of mouthpiece for what remained of the New England conscience. He was not by any measure but his own a failure. And the proof of the pudding is The Education of Henry Adams itself which remains among the oddest and most enlightening books in American literature. Adams s book is a brilliant account of how his own sensibility came to be. A literary landmark from the moment it first appeared the Autobiography confers upon its author precisely that prize he felt had always eluded him: success.

The Education of Oversoul 7 by Jane Roberts

Written and published over a period of forty years the essays in Phillip Sterling s Lessons in Geography chronicle how his formative years in Northwest Lower Michigan not only inspired him to be a writer but also profoundly influenced his creative and critical perspectives. Diverse in form the essays are nonetheless unified in theme: how the geography of a place-the forests shores and lakes of Michigan-plays a role in one s education imparting knowledge of the wider human world.

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