Curriculum, Accreditation and Coming of Age of Higher Education

Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
Herausgeber: Geiger, Roger L

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This latest volume in Roger Geiger's distinguished series on the history of higher education begins with a rare glimpse into the minds of mid-nineteenth century collegians. Timothy J. Williams mines the diaries of students at the University of North Carolina to unearth a not unexpected preoccupation with sex, but also a complex psychological context for those feelings. Marc A. VanOverbeke examines eff orts by the University of Michigan to strengthen connections with secondary schools and build a hierarchical educational system in Michigan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781412810319
• ISBN-10: 1412810310
• Artikelnr.: 25886190

Autorenporträt

Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State University. He has edited Perspectives on the History of Higher Education since 1993. Some of his other works include Research and Relevant Knowledge, To Advance Knowledge, and The American College in the Nineteenth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Confronting a "Wilderness of Sin": Student Writing, Sex, and Manhood in the
Antebellum South; Linking Secondary and Higher Education through the
University of Michigan's Accreditation Program, 1870-1890; An Ambiguous
Purpose: Religion and Academics in the Bryn Mawr College Curriculum,
1885-1915; Shaping a Century of Criticism: H.L. Mencken on "Pedagogues" and
"Obergogues" in the Rolling Mills of Higher Education; Review Essays; The
Liberal Pan-Protestant Moment and the Emergence of the University; Postwar
American Higher Education: Documenting Recent History; Selected Recent
Dissertations in the History of Higher Education