Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by David John Frank; Jay Gabler; Foreword by John W. Meyer
From the rear cover
Current conversations on the state of academia contain a broad sense of crisis over changes in the body of university knowledge--the decline of literature, the unbridling of ethnic studies, the growth of various applied programs, and so on. Much of the concern revolves around a perceived deterioration of the academic core in which, the thinking goes, the university's teaching and research priorities are increasingly compromised by external financial and political interests.
With data on faculty and course composition over the twentieth century for a global sample of universities, this book provides an examination unprecedented in scope and scale of changes in academia. The authors document the changing emphases accorded the branches of learning, the applied and basic divisions, and the disciplinary fields. They find deep transformations, as anticipated, but offer a new explanation for these shifts. Changes in academic focus are less the work of outside interest groups, but instead are cultural maps to the altering features of globally institutionalized understandings of reality.
From the jacket flap
Current conversations on the state of academia contain a broad sense of crisis over changes in the body of university knowledge--the decline of literature, the unbridling of ethnic studies, the growth of various applied programs, and so on. Much of the concern revolves around a perceived deterioration of the academic core in which, the thinking goes, the university's teaching and research priorities are increasingly compromised by external financial and political interests.
With data on faculty and course composition over the twentieth century for a global sample of universities, this book provides an examination unprecedented in scope and scale of changes in academia. The authors document the changing emphases accorded the branches of learning, the applied and basic divisions, and the disciplinary fields. They find deep transformations, as anticipated, but offer a new explanation for these shifts. Changes in academic focus are less the work of outside interest groups, but instead are cultural maps to the altering features of globally institutionalized understandings of reality.
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- Title Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century
- Author David John Frank; Jay Gabler; Foreword by John W. Meyer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford California US
- Date 2006-07-25
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780804753760 / 0804753768
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.92 x 6.08 x 0.57 in (22.66 x 15.44 x 1.45 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006006596
- Dewey Decimal Code 378.199
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2006, Page 233
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