Books in the Jossey-Bass/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching series

Examines the crisis as well as the promise of professionalism in contemporary society. This book argues for the importance of a civic professionalism that reflects the ideals of democracy and public service in a complex economic environment. It also explores the rise of complex institutions of industrial and postindustrial society.

The Advancement of Learning has the potential to shape the work of all college and university faculty, and frames an agenda for the future. A publication of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), this book builds on the work begun in the earlier bestselling reports, Scholarship Reconsidered and Scholarship Assessed.

This book distills the lessons learned from a five-year action and research project with more than 80 doctoral programs committed to better preparing graduates. Six disciplines were included: Chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics and neuroscience.

A Life of the Mind for Practice proposes a new model of undergraduate teaching, focused on the interdependence of liberal education and professional training. This book shows how both liberal arts educators and educators of professionals can provide their students with access to the actual practices as well as the purposes of their professions.

Business is the largest undergraduate major in the United States and still growing. This reality, along with the immense power of the business sector and its significance for national and global well-being, makes quality education critical not only for the students themselves but also for the public good.

For almost two decades, acclaimed education scholar and current president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Lee S. Shulman has been bringing uncommon wit, passion, and vision to issues of teaching and learning in higher education.

This book contains essays on the topic of the importance of graduate education written by scholars from across all disciplines. It brings together new and invigorating ideas about the doctorate, some of which may be unique to their discipline, but equally applicable across the fields.