Eric Lybeck

The University Revolution (eBook, PDF)

Outline of a Processual Theory of Modern Higher Education

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Revisiting the emergence and transformation of higher education since 1800 using a novel processual approach, this book offers a new interpretation of the role of universities in contemporary society, thus re-orienting our understanding of the importance of higher education in the past and future development of modern societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351017541
• Artikelnr.: 61771109

Autorenporträt

Eric Lybeck is Presidential Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK, and co-editor of Sociological Amnesia: Cross Currents in Disciplinary History. He is editor-in-chief of the open-access journal, Civic Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The University Revolution
or Academization Process
2. The Systemic Evolution of Universities: Ben-David's 'Centers of Learning' as World-systems Analysis
3. The Ideological Organization of University Systems: A Theoretical Framework
4. Paradoxes of the Academization Process: Foreign and Classical Language Education since 1864
5. Women and Higher Education: Two Ideas of Equality in 19th-Century Britain
6. "Without any Reason for Being": Interdisciplinarity at the 1904 World's Fair
7. Conclusion: Reconstructing the Academic Profession