The University Revolution: Outline of a Processual Theory of Modern Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9781138497900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 204 str.

Eric Lybeck

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.