The postmodern university? : contested visions of higher education in society
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The postmodern university? : contested visions of higher education in society
（SRHE and Open University Press imprint / general editor, Heather Eggins）
Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1997
- : hard
- : pbk
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Originated from a colloquium held at Magdalen College, Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, July 19-21, 1996
Includes bibliographical references (p. [114]-120) and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780335199587
Description
There is a widespread awareness that universities are changing radically: there 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 place of universities in contemporary society and address the issue of whether it is useful to affix the label 'postmodern' to the contemporary university. The "Postmodern University" signposts the major directions in which universities are moving, and provides the reader with tools for a better understanding of today's university.
Table of Contents
PrefaceChanging ideas of the universityPart one: Postmodernism versus modernismUniversitiesOld, new and differentThe need for placeThe postmodern universityDisinterestedness and the modern universityPart two: The university in societyIntellectualsinside and outside the academyUniversities and public policyUniversities and employersrhetoric and realityConclusionan affirming flameReferencesIndex.
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: hard ISBN 9780335199594
Description
There is a widespread awareness that universities are changing radically: there 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 place of universities in contemporary society and address the issue of whether it is useful to affix the label 'postmodern' to the contemporary university.
The Postmodern University? signposts the major directions in which universities are moving, and provides the reader with tools for a better understanding of today's university.
Table of Contents
Preface
Changing ideas of the university
Part one: Postmodernism versus modernism
Universities
Old, new and different
The need for place
The postmodern university
Disinterestedness and the modern university
Part two: The university in society
Intellectuals
inside and outside the academy
Universities and public policy
Universities and employers
rhetoric and reality
Conclusion
an affirming flame
References
Index.
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