The Academic System in American Society: Foundations of Higher Education
Autor Alain Touraineen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 ian 2018
Touraine views American higher education as a system within a definite, though changing, social context. He compares U.S. student movements with those of other countries. He is skeptical about the way Americans view the relationships between the university and what he regards as the ruling forces of the society, between knowledge and power, between production and education. He offers no facile solutions, but he presents an exciting, nontraditional analysis of the social and political forces that have shaped the modern history of higher education.
In the new introduction, Clark Kerr contrasts his own views as an American observer to those of Touraine as a French intellectual. He asserts that the family, not higher education, is the most important "school" in the process of reproducing society. Kerr places more emphasis than does Touraine on the labor market, on the production functions (training of skills and advancing technology) of the vast nonelite segments of American higher education, on the long-term impacts of science in changing society, and on scholarly criticism in affecting transformations, and places less emphasis on sporadic political protests by faculty and students.
He agrees with Touraine however, in his two great themes: (1) that you cannot understand the academic system unless you first understand society; and (2) that the rise of the university must be understood to understand modern society, where "knowledge is power." This volume will be important to all those interested in higher education, whether as participants or observers.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138534056
ISBN-10: 1138534056
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Foundations of Higher Education
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138534056
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Foundations of Higher Education
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Foreword, Acknowledgments, 1. Introduction, 2. National Integration, 3. The Consolidation of the Social Hierarchy, 4. Power and Professors, 5. Protest, 6. Integration or Disintegration of the Academic System, References, Index
Descriere
It has been my object in the present work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life. One reason for this procedure is my desire to conduct the reader by the same path that I myself have followed in approaching ethical questions.