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The postmodern university? : contested visions of higher education in society / edited by Anthony Smith and Frank Webster.

Contributor(s): Smith, Anthony, 1938- | Webster, Frank.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SRHE and Open University press imprint: Publisher: Buckingham : Society for Reserach into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1997Description: xi, 125 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0335199585 .Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- Congresses | Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses | Educational change -- Great Britain -- Congresses | Educational change -- United States -- Congresses | Postmodernism and education -- Great Britain -- Congresses | Postmodernism and education -- United States -- CongressesDDC classification: 378.01
Contents:
Changing ideas of the university / Anthony Smith and Frank Webster -- Part 1: Postmodernism versus modernism -- Universities: old, new and different / Zygmunt Bauman -- The need for place / Krishan Kumar -- The postmodern university? / Peter Scott -- Disinterested and the modern university / Paul Filmer -- Part 2: The university in society -- Intellectuals: inside and outside the academy / Russell Jacoby -- Universities and employers: Rhetoric and reality / Philip Brown and Richard Scase -- Conclusion: An affirming flame / Anthony Smith and Frank Webster.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This text brings together intellectuals from Britain and the USA to examine what is happening in higher education. Their concern is not how to manage the changes but how best to conceptualize and understand them; they explore the place of universities in contemporary scoiety and address the issue of whether it is useful to affix the label postmodern to the contemporary university.

Originated from a colloquium held at Magdalen College, Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, July 19-21, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-120) and index.

Changing ideas of the university / Anthony Smith and Frank Webster -- Part 1: Postmodernism versus modernism -- Universities: old, new and different / Zygmunt Bauman -- The need for place / Krishan Kumar -- The postmodern university? / Peter Scott -- Disinterested and the modern university / Paul Filmer -- Part 2: The university in society -- Intellectuals: inside and outside the academy / Russell Jacoby -- Universities and employers: Rhetoric and reality / Philip Brown and Richard Scase -- Conclusion: An affirming flame / Anthony Smith and Frank Webster.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Changing ideas of the university
  • Part 1 Postmodernism versus modernism Universities Old, new and different
  • The need for place
  • The postmodern university Disinterestedness and the modern university
  • Part 2 The university in society Intellectuals inside and outside the academy
  • Universities and public policy
  • Universities and employersrhetoric and reality
  • Conclusionan affirming flame
  • References
  • Index

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