Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities (eBook, PDF)

Lessons from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Innovations
Redaktion: Sorber, Nathan M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities explores major ideas which have shaped the history and development of higher education in North America and considers how these might inform contemporary innovations in the sector.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000190502
• Artikelnr.: 59891506

Autorenporträt

Nathan M. Sorber is Associate Professor of higher education administration at West Virginia University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionPart 1: Change and Continuity in American Higher EducationSection Introduction1. The Academic Engineers 1900 - 1920: The First Generation of Higher Education Reformers2. Change and Continuity in American Higher Education in the Post-War EraPart 2: Systemic and Organizational InnovationSection Introduction3. Mergers in Higher Education: Historical Developments in US and International Contexts4. An "Administrative" Approach to Innovation: Two Teacher-College Presidents and Simplified Spelling in the Progressive Era5. "We Felt ... that we were Talking to Old Friends": Cooperation Among Catholic and Protestant Colleges, 1938 - 19456. The Morrill Act Disruption: The Land-Grant Idea and Six Major Reforms of American Higher EducationPart 3: Intellectual Shifts and Higher Education TransformationSection Introduction7. Progressivism, John Dewey and the University of Chicago Laboratory School: The Search for Community8. "To Make Liberal Men: Reclaiming Moral Philosophy in the Mid-Twentieth Century American University"Conclusion