Academically adrift book7/6/2023 Citing “emerging empirical evidence that suggests that college students’ academic effort has dramatically declined in recent decades”, the authors suggest that students are “managing” college in ways that minimise the need for serious effort. Is there reason to worry that the system is not yielding what it should? Arum and Roksa say yes, there is reason to worry. The US has enjoyed for many year a privileged place as a ‘gold standard’ for higher education around the world. Specifically, “… what if increased educational attainment is not equivalent to enhanced individual capacity for critical thinking and complex reasoning?” The concern is one with profound implications, considering that critical skills and complex reasoning are among the most fundamental competencies that American higher education institutions declare they will produce in their graduates today they also top the short list of skills that economists and others have deemed are vitally important for national competitiveness. Pages: 259Īmerican sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa raise an uncomfortable question in their new book, Academically Adrift.
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