The Making of the Modern University (Paperback, New)

What is the purpose of higher education, and how should we pursue it? Debates over these issues raged in the late nineteenth century as reformers introduced a new kind of university--one dedicated to free inquiry and the advancement of knowledge. In the first major study of moral education in American universities, Julie Reuben examines the consequences of these debates for modern intellectual life.
Based on extensive research at eight universities--Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan, and California at Berkeley--Reuben examines the aims of university reformers in the context of nineteenth-century ideas about truth. She argues that these educators tried to apply new scientific standards to moral education, but that their modernization efforts ultimately failed. By exploring the complex interaction between institutional and intellectual change, Reuben enhances our understanding of the modern university, the secularization of intellectual life, and the association of scientific objectivity with value-neutrality.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1996
First published:	September 1996
Authors:	Julie A. Reuben
Dimensions:	154 x 229 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	374
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-71020-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-226-71020-3
Barcode:	9780226710204

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