Randle W Nelsen: 2 books
Degrees of Failure
University Education in Decline
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show how continuing inequities, grounded in large part upon social class differences, are maintained and reproduced...
Fun and Games in Higher Education
The Lonely Crowd Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Fun & Games & Higher Education ranges from Wayne’s World to hot-rodding, from automobility to the popular phenomenon know as the tailgate party, from German sociologist George Simmel to Canadian Media Guru Marshall McLuhan—all in the interests in exploring North American obsession with play-and particularly the intersection between education, work, and leisure.