American Higher Education, Second Edition A History

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9781403972897
ISBN 10:
1403972893
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 04/02/2006
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

When Christopher Lucas's classic book was released a decade ago, it changed the education community's perception of higher education. Now, the long-awaited, second-edition of this important text has arrived. American Higher Education offers students a much needed sense of perspective on current debates over such issues as access, costs, academic quality, social equity, and curricula. Updated throughout, the new edition also includes new sections covering teacher education, teacher institutes of the 1800s, and a discussion of the intrusion of a market-driven ideology into academia.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART 1 HISTORICAL ORIGINS AND ANTECEDENTS

Higher Learning in Antiquity

(32)

Beginnings: The Overconfident Candidate

(1)

The Tablet-House of Ancient Mesopotamia

(2)

Advanced Learning in Egypt

(2)

The Sophists of Classical Greece

(6)

Philosophic Schools

(4)

The Hellenistic Period

(5)

Roman Higher Education

(4)

The Hellenistic Decline

(2)

Early Christian Learning

(6)

From Cathedral Church Schools to Universities

(36)

The Early Medieval Wasteland

(1)

Cathedral Church Schools

(2)

Scholastic Scholarship

(1)

Learned Women

(2)

Teaching Guilds: The Nations at Paris

(3)

Student Nations: Bologna

(4)

Apprentice Scholars and Masters

(5)

Advanced Studies: Higher Faculties

(2)

University Instruction

(3)

The Struggle for Immunities and Exemptions

(5)

University Migrations

(3)

Colleges

(1)

The Contribution of the Medieval University

(4)

Post-Medieval Academe: Evolution and Estrangement

(32)

Classicism and Italian Humanism

(5)

Academies and the Ideal of the Courtier

(2)

Northern Humanism

(3)

Humanism and the Universities

(2)

The Inns of Court

(1)

The Impact of Confessionalism

(6)

Empiricism and Scientific Inquiry

(3)

University Somnolence and Stagnation

(6)

Unfulfilled Promises

(4)

PART 2 AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE FORMATIVE PERIOD

The American Colonial and Antebellum College

103

(42)

A City Upon a Hill

103

(2)

Higher Learning in English America

105

(7)

The Revolution and Republican Ideals

112

(2)

The Dartmouth Case

114

(2)

``A Land of Colleges''

116

(4)

Denominational Schools

120

(1)

Jacksonian Ideals and the College Movement

121

(3)

College Management and Control

124

(2)

Academic Supervision and Collegiate Life

126

(3)

Extracurricular Pursuits

129

(2)

The Yale Report

131

(4)

The Aftermath: In Retrospect

135

(2)

Teachers' Institutes

137

(2)

Normal Schools

139

(6)

The Evolving American University

145

(48)

A New Era

145

(1)

Postwar Rebuilding

146

(2)

Imperatives for Change

148

(4)

State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

152

(7)

Municipal Colleges and Universities

159

(1)

Women's Colleges and Coeducation

160

(4)

Black Colleges

164

(7)

Elective Curricula

171

(6)

Graduate Professional Studies: The Allure of the Germanic Ideal

177

(4)

The Wisconsin Idea

181

(2)

Gridiron Loyalties

183

(2)

Misgivings and Demurrals

185

(8)

PART 3 AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION: MATURATION AND DEVELOPMENT

American Academe in the Early Twentieth Century

193

(50)

Paradigms Old and New

193

(2)

Mammon and the Monoliths

195

(4)

Bureaucratization and the Business Ethos

199

(3)

Academic Freedom

202

(6)

College Students and Campus Life

208

(4)

From Marginality Toward the Mainstream: New Students

212

(6)

Curricular Innovations and Experiments

218

(6)

Great Books and the Chicago Plan

224

(3)

Two-Year Colleges

227

(3)

From Normal Schools to State Teachers' Colleges

230

(3)

Teacher Preparation in the University

233

(2)

The Quest for Legitimacy

235

(8)

Postwar Higher Learning in America

243

(44)

Academic Witch Hunts

243

(4)

Changing Growth Patterns

247

(5)

Governmental and Business Involvement

252

(5)

Corporate Academe

257

(3)

Black Higher Education

260

(6)

Curricular Inclusion

266

(1)

General Learning and Liberal Studies in an Age of Specialization

267

(8)

Student Activism and Dissent

275

(12)

PART 4 CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES AND ISSUES

Another Season of Discontent: The Critics

287

(36)

General Education Reconsidered

287

(4)

Multiculturalism and the ``Political Correctness'' Controversy

291

(5)

Diagnosing the Malaise

296

(2)

Careerism and the Entrepreneurial University

298

(3)

Specialization and Fragmentation

301

(3)

The ``publish or Perish'' Syndrome

304

(3)

Loss of Community

307

(3)

Academic Standards

310

(3)

Neglect of Undergraduate Education

313

(2)

Integrating the Curriculum

315

(2)

Academic ``Commodification''

317

(6)

Epilogue: In Historical Retrospect

323

(18)

Dialogues with the Past

323

(1)

Disinterested Learning

324

(2)

Faculty Power and Governance

326

(1)

Academic Autonomy and Freedom

327

(4)

Curricular Conservatism

331

(3)

Educational Aims and Ideals

334

(1)

Inclusivity and Elitism

335

(1)

Knowledge as Social Construction

336

(3)

Academic Conventions, Rites and Rituals

339

(2)

Notes

341

(42)

Sources and References

383

(8)

Index

391

American Higher Education, Second Edition A History

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