The Concept of a University: With a New Introduction by the Author

ISBN-13: 9780765808479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 250 str.

Kenneth Minogue

Opis

Taking on the challenge of the postmodernists of politics, Kenneth Minogue argues forcefully and persuasively that the current dominant philosophies of education rest upon a mistake. The fashionable belief that the university is society's handmaiden is confronted by a view of the university as an institution with an independent vitality and function. Minogue at one and the same time reminds us of the sources of admiration for university life in the medieval world, and how it rested squarely on its essential autonomy from the very social pressures that have come to defi ne the modern university.

Spis treści

Introduction Of Heels and Hammers; One: The Problem of Identification; 1: The Beginning of Universities; 2: Religion and Academic Freedom; 3: Lectures, Dons and Undergraduates : Institutional Resilience; 4: The Academic and the Practical Worlds; Two: Imitations of the Academic; 5: The Battle of Beliefs; 6: Journalism: Nutshell Truths for the Breakfast Table; 7: The Ideological Imitation: The Dangers of a Little Learning; 8: Is the Academic World Itself Ideological?; Three: The Siege of Academe; 9: The Doctrine of Social Adaptation; 10: The Doctrine of Social Transformation; 11: The Secret University

O autorze

Kenneth Minogue