A People's History of American Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9780415894708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 226 str.

Philo Hutcheson

Opis

This essential history of American higher education builds from the ground up, shedding light on the full, diverse of range of institutions--including small liberal arts schools, junior and community colleges, and state colleges--that have been instrumental in creating the higher education system we know today. A People's History of American Higher Education focuses on those participants who may not have been members of elite groups, yet who helped push elite institutions and the country as a whole towards different goals and behaviors. This pathbreaking textbook addresses key issues which have often been condemned to exceptions and footnotes--if not ignored completely--in historical considerations of U.S. higher education: particularly race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Hutcheson introduces readers to both social and intellectual history, providing invaluable perspectives and methodologies for graduate students and faculty members alike. A People's History of American Higher Education surveys the varied characteristics of the diverse populations constituting or striving for the middle class through educational attainment, providing a narrative that unites often divergent historical fields. The author engages readers in a powerful, revised understanding of what institutions and participants beyond the oft-cited "dead white men" have done for American higher education.

Recenzje

Philo Hutcheson does not offer yet another account of higher education in the U.S. that focuses primarily on elite institutions, leaders, and students in which stories about their diversity are sprinkled like a final pinch of seasoning. Instead, in A People's History of American Higher Education, he radically reconceives this history by centering his attention on a beautifully diverse range of historical players and revealing their fundamental importance. I am eager to bring Hutcheson's thematically-driven, compelling, and witty account to the students in my history of higher education classes.
-Jackie Blount, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, The Ohio State University

Spis treści

1. Introduction: History as Inquiry  2. From the Beginning: Citizenship and Leadership, Exclusion, and Stratification in the Colonizing Colleges and the Early Republic  3. A Century of Destiny Built on Developing Traditions: Higher Education Expands  4. The Progressive Era and Its Enduring Impact on Higher Education: Efficient, Rational Solutions to Moral and Social Problems  5. War: Meanings of Patriotism in Higher Education  6. Sex and Love! Beer! Football! And Other Important Student Activities  7. The Research University, Revised  8. From the Colonial Colleges to the Colleges and Universities of Today: Processes of Exclusion and Social Stratification  9. An Epilogue on This History of U.S. Higher Education: Historical Dimensions of Meritocracy

O autorze

Philo A. Hutcheson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Alabama.