Foundations of Higher Education – serie
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Investment in Learning
The Individual and Social Value of American Higher Education
Av Howard Bowen
Inbunden, 2018
2441 kr
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The value of higher education has been under attack as seldom before in American history. We are told of the overeducated American, of the case against college, and of the failure of education to contribute significantly to the reduction of inequality. In this environment, republication of an …
Making the Grade
The Academic Side of College Life
Av Howard S. Becker, Howard S. Becker
Inbunden, 2017
2667 kr
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Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has always been dominated by grades and grade point …
Scientific Elite
Nobel Laureates in the United States
Inbunden, 2018
2441 kr
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Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all American laureates who won prizes from 1907 until 1972, examining the complex interplay of merit and privilege at each stage of their scientific lives …
Student Politics in America
A Historical Analysis
Inbunden, 2018
1478 kr
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Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politics. Students were active in the anti-slavery movement; they rebelled against military service in the Civil War; they staged demonstrations during the Depression; and they were vocal during the …
Academic Man
A Study in the Sociology of a Profession
Av Logan Wilson
Inbunden, 2017
2667 kr
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When it was originally published, The Academic Man was the first full-scale social science-based study on the American academic profession. The issues identified by Logan Wilson in 1942 remain central to any consideration of the American professoriate. Wilson demonstrates the usefulness of a …
Academic System in American Society
Inbunden, 2018
743 kr
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Although the period of student protests of the 1960s and 1970s has long passed, Alain Touraine argues, in this wide-ranging and vigorous essay, that the period's problems remain with us. Higher degrees have become less and less valuable on the labor market and the demand for academic reform has …
Degradation of the Academic Dogma
Inbunden, 2018
2441 kr
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This is one of the most important books ever published about the American university. Robert Nisbet accuses universities of having betrayed themselves. Over the centuries they earned the respect of society by attempting to remain faithful to what he terms "the academic dogma," the pursuit of …
Distinctive College
Antioch, Reed, and Swathmore
Av Burton R. Clark, John A. Meacham
Inbunden, 2017
2667 kr
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The factors contributing to the greatness of a first-rank liberal arts college are difficult to analyze. Hidden from view in the mysteries of tradition and institutional aura, the insistent questions remain: How has it been done? Can it still be done? In an intensive analysis of three highly …
Future of the Humanities
Teaching Art, Religion, Philosophy, Literature and History
Av James Hughes
Inbunden, 2017
2441 kr
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This book locates the humanities in six general fields of study: religion and philosophy, art and music, and literature and history. It offers suggestions for interdisciplinary work around topics such as punishment, and death and dying.
Higher Learning in America
A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men
Inbunden, 2017
2667 kr
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Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M. Hutchins' classic is once again available, with a brilliant personal and professional appreciation by Harry S. Ashmore. When it was published in 1936The Higher Learning in Americabrought into focus the root …
Organization of Academic Work
Inbunden, 2020
2073 kr
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This book originated in an analysis of government bureaucracies. Peter Blau was led to wonder whether corresponding patterns are observable in the administrative structures of other types of organisations. This text examines the institutions of higher education, which Blau believes are the formal …
Distinctive College
Antioch, Reed, and Swathmore
Av Burton R. Clark, John A. Meacham
Häftad, 1992
745 kr
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The factors contributing to the greatness of a first-rank liberal arts college are difficult to analyze. Hidden from view in the mysteries of tradition and institutional aura, the insistent questions remain: How has it been done? Can it still be done? In an intensive analysis of three highly …
Universities
American, English, German
Häftad, 1994
717 kr
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Reprint of the Oxford University Press edition of 1930, with a long new introduction by Clark Kerr. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Future of the Humanities
Teaching Art, Religion, Philosophy, Literature and History
Av James Hughes
Häftad, 1995
789 kr
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This book locates the humanities in six general fields of study: religion and philosophy, art and music, and literature and history. It offers suggestions for interdisciplinary work around topics such as punishment, and death and dying.
Making the Grade
The Academic Side of College Life
Av Howard S. Becker, Howard S. Becker
Häftad, 1995
674 kr
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Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has always been dominated by grades and grade point …
Higher Learning in America
A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men
Häftad, 1995
717 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M. Hutchins' classic is once again available, with a brilliant personal and professional appreciation by Harry S. Ashmore. When it was published in 1936The Higher Learning in Americabrought into focus the root …
Academic Man
A Study in the Sociology of a Profession
Av Logan Wilson
Häftad, 1995
717 kr
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When it was originally published, The Academic Man was the first full-scale social science-based study on the American academic profession. The issues identified by Logan Wilson in 1942 remain central to any consideration of the American professoriate. Wilson demonstrates the usefulness of a …
Scientific Elite
Nobel Laureates in the United States
Häftad, 1995
767 kr
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Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all American laureates who won prizes from 1907 until 1972, examining the complex interplay of merit and privilege at each stage of their scientific lives …
Academic Freedom in the Age of the College
Häftad, 1995
717 kr
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When this classic volume first appeared, academic freedom was a crucially important issue. It is equally so today. Hofstadter approaches the topic historically, showing how events from various historical epochs expose the degree of freedom in academic institutions. The volume exemplifies Richard …
Degradation of the Academic Dogma
Häftad, 1996
789 kr
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This is one of the most important books ever published about the American university. Robert Nisbet accuses universities of having betrayed themselves. Over the centuries they earned the respect of society by attempting to remain faithful to what he terms "the academic dogma," the pursuit of …
Academic System in American Society
Häftad, 1996
717 kr
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Although the period of student protests of the 1960s and 1970s has long passed, Alain Touraine argues, in this wide-ranging and vigorous essay, that the period's problems remain with us. Higher degrees have become less and less valuable on the labor market and the demand for academic reform has …
Student Politics in America
A Historical Analysis
Häftad, 1997
489 kr
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Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politics. Students were active in the anti-slavery movement; they rebelled against military service in the Civil War; they staged demonstrations during the Depression; and they were vocal during the …
Rebellion in the University
Häftad, 1993
439 kr
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Political activity and student unrest have been recurring phenomena in American universities even after they reached their apogee in the 1960s. In Rebellion in the University, Seymour Martin Lipset reviews that turbulent period and places it in a larger historical perspective. He analyzes the …
Organization of Academic Work
Häftad, 1994
494 kr
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This book originated in an analysis of government bureaucracies. Peter Blau was led to wonder whether corresponding patterns are observable in the administrative structures of other types of organisations. This text examines the institutions of higher education, which Blau believes are the formal …
Investment in Learning
The Individual and Social Value of American Higher Education
Av Howard Bowen
Häftad, 1996
487 kr
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The value of higher education has been under attack as seldom before in American history. We are told of the overeducated American, of the case against college, and of the failure of education to contribute significantly to the reduction of inequality. In this environment, republication of an …
