A people's history of American higher education
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A people's history of American higher education
(Core concepts in the history of higher education / Marybeth Gasman and Edward P. St. John, series editors)
Routledge, 2020
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This pathbreaking textbook addresses key issues which have often been condemned to exceptions and footnotes-if not ignored completely-in historical considerations of U.S. higher education; particularly race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Organized thematically, this book builds from the ground up, shedding light on the full, diverse range of institutions-including small liberal arts schools, junior and community colleges, black and white women's colleges, black colleges, and state colleges-that have been instrumental in creating the higher education system we know today. A People's History of American Higher Education surveys the varied characteristics of the diverse populations constituting or striving for the middle class through educational attainment, providing a narrative that unites often divergent historical fields. The author engages readers in a powerful, revised understanding of what institutions and participants beyond the oft-cited elite groups have done for American higher education.
A People's History of American Higher Education focuses on those participants who may not have been members of elite groups, yet who helped push elite institutions and the country as a whole. Hutcheson introduces readers to both social and intellectual history, providing invaluable perspectives and methodologies for graduate students and faculty members alike. This essential history of American higher education brings a fresh perspective to the field, challenging the accepted ways of thinking historically about colleges and universities.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: History as Inquiry 2. From the Beginning: Citizenship and Leadership, Exclusion, and Stratification in the Colonizing Colleges and the Early Republic 3. A Century of Destiny Built on Developing Traditions: Higher Education Expands 4. The Progressive Era and Its Enduring Impact on Higher Education: Efficient, Rational Solutions to Moral and Social Problems 5. War: Meanings of Patriotism in Higher Education 6. Sex and Love! Beer! Football! And Other Important Student Activities 7. The Research University, Revised 8. From the Colonial Colleges to the Colleges and Universities of Today: Processes of Exclusion and Social Stratification 9. An Epilogue on This History of U.S. Higher Education: Historical Dimensions of Meritocracy
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