ISBN:
0511006349
,
9780511006340
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 461 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rothblatt, Sheldon Modern university and its discontents
DDC:
378.41
Keywords:
Newman, John Henry 1801-1890
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Newman, John Henry
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Newman, John Henry
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Newman, John Henry
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Education, Higher History
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Great Britain
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Education, Higher History
;
United States
;
Education, Higher Aims and objectives
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Great Britain
;
Education, Higher Aims and objectives
;
United States
;
Education, Higher History
;
Education, Higher History
;
Education, Higher Aims and objectives
;
Education, Higher Aims and objectives
;
EDUCATION ; Higher
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Education, Higher
;
Education, Higher ; Aims and objectives
;
Höheres Bildungswesen
;
Hoger onderwijs
;
History
;
Great Britain
;
Großbritannien
;
USA
;
United States
;
USA
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
1. The idea of the idea of a university and its antithesis -- 2. 'Consult the Genius of the Place' -- 3. 'The first undergraduates, recognizable as such' -- 4. Failure -- 5. Historical and comparative remarks on the 'federal principle' in higher education -- Interlude: General introduction to Chapters six and seven -- 6. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 1. 'The awkward interval' -- 7. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 2. The market and the University of London -- 8. Alternatives: 1. The importance of being unattached -- 9. Alternatives: 2. Born to have no rest.
Abstract:
This series of interlinked essays takes the form of historical 'voyages' around the Victorian intellectual John Henry Newman, and Newman's classic work The Idea of a University, as well as changes in the structure and culture of universities which occurred in Newman's lifetime. The voyages connect nineteenth- and twentieth-century university history, mainly in Britain and the United States but with side excursions to continental Europe. Among the many important topics discussed are the history of student communities in Oxford and Cambridge, the growth of a modern examinations culture, university architecture and the use of space in connection with educational ideals, urbanism and universities, and the competition of states, markets and academic guilds for the control of universities and the right to define the missions of university professors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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