Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education
- Cambridge Handbooks in Education
- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Historical Perspectives
- Part Two Philosophical and Normative Foundations
- Part Three Key Topics and Concepts
- Part Four Challenges
- 26 Wealth Stratification in US Higher Education and Democratic Education, 1890s–2020s
- 27 Mentoring and Instructional Duties of Professors
- 28 Racism, Moral Transformation, and Democratic Education
- 29 Postcolonial Perspectives on Democratic Education
- 30 Populist Challenges to Democratic Education
- 31 Religion and Democratic Education
- 32 The Epistocratic Challenge to Democratic Education
- 33 Climate Change and Democratic Education
- 34 The COVID-19 Pandemic and Democratic Education
- 35 Teacher Neutrality, Pedagogical Impartiality, and Democratic Education
- Index
- References
27 - Mentoring and Instructional Duties of Professors
from Part Four - Challenges
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2023
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education
- Cambridge Handbooks in Education
- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Historical Perspectives
- Part Two Philosophical and Normative Foundations
- Part Three Key Topics and Concepts
- Part Four Challenges
- 26 Wealth Stratification in US Higher Education and Democratic Education, 1890s–2020s
- 27 Mentoring and Instructional Duties of Professors
- 28 Racism, Moral Transformation, and Democratic Education
- 29 Postcolonial Perspectives on Democratic Education
- 30 Populist Challenges to Democratic Education
- 31 Religion and Democratic Education
- 32 The Epistocratic Challenge to Democratic Education
- 33 Climate Change and Democratic Education
- 34 The COVID-19 Pandemic and Democratic Education
- 35 Teacher Neutrality, Pedagogical Impartiality, and Democratic Education
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores the duties of college teachers to teach and mentor undergraduate students. It argues that teaching and mentoring are currently suboptimal because college teachers are not trained to do either, and have little incentive to improve. The result is that students emerge from college suboptimally prepared both to participate productively in the economy and to participate reasonably and responsibly as democratic citizens. This is a cost to them, and to the public good. Reform is needed. But the second half of the chapter argues that, even absent reform, and even absent improvement from their colleagues, individual college teachers have stringent responsibilities to improve their own teaching and mentoring.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education , pp. 456 - 473Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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