The postmodern university?: contested visions of higher education in society ; [originated from a colloquium held at Magdalen College, Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, July 19-21, 1996]
There is a widespread awareness that universities are changing radically - they are many more students, many more universities, a constant complaint about lack of resources, and continual debate about declining standards. This book brings together leading intellectuals from Britain and the USA to ex...
| Résumé: | There is a widespread awareness that universities are changing radically - they are many more students, many more universities, a constant complaint about lack of resources, and continual debate about declining standards. This book brings together leading intellectuals from Britain and the USA to examine what is happening in higher education. Their concern is not how to manage the changes but how best to conceptualize and understand them. They explore the whether it is usefull to affix the label "postmodern" to the contemporary university. Inhalt: Smith, Anthony/Webster, Frank: Changing Ideas of the University. - PART 1. POSTMODERNISM VERSUS MODERNISM (Baumann, Zygmunt: Universities - Old, New and Different. - Kumar, Krishan: The Need for Place. - Scott, Peter: The Postmodern University?. - Filmer, Paul: Disinterestedness and the Modern University). - PART 2. THE UNIVERSITY IN SOCIETY (Jacoby, Russell: Intellectuals - Inside and Outside the Academy. - Melody, William: Universities and Public Policy. - Brown, Phillip/Scase, Richard:Universities and Employers - Rhetoric and Reality. - Smith, Anthony/Webster, Frank: Conclusion - An Affirming Flame) (HoF/Text übernommen) |
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| Description: | Literaturverz. S. [114] - 120 |
| Description matérielle: | XI, 125 S, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0335199593 |