UID:
almafu_9960120082002883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 370 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-72092-0
Content:
Universities are said to be the 'powerhouses' of modern society. They educate leaders and advance our basic knowledge of nature and society. Yet historically they have been vulnerable when meeting the challenges of dynamic industrial democracies or indeed of modern totalitarian states. Today universities are at the centre of society's attention and must therefore balance a great number of contradictory demands and pressures. Can this be done within the structure and ethos of an historic institution called a 'university', or are such institutions now passé and merely part of a bureaucratically managed higher education 'system'? These essays discuss the ways in which universities have coped with complexity since 1800, while retaining their basic 'idea'. Special attention is accorded to the role of the State and the autonomous professions in defining the mission of universities and in their struggle for individuality in the face of mounting pluralistic and bureaucratic pressures.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Universities and 'higher education' /
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The Limbs of Osiris : liberal education in the English-speaking world /
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In search of Isis : general education in Germany and Sweden /
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The Transformation of professional education in the nineteenth century /
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From practice to school-based professional education : patterns of conflict and accommodation in England, France, and the United States /
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Universities, research, and the transformation of the state in Sweden /
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Research, graduate education, and the ecology of American universities : an interpretive history /
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The Problem of complexity in modern higher education /
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Comparative perspectives on British and American higher education /
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The Modern university : the three transformations /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-03110-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-43165-4
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720925
