What Universities Owe Democracy

• Tác giả: Ronald J Daniels, Grant Shreve, Phillip Spector
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1421442693
• ISBN-13: 978-1421442709
• ISBN-13: 978-1421444307
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 378.73 Higher education
• Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (pages cm)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 246710
• Chủ đề: 1. Democracy and education--United States; 2. Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

"This book identifies four distinct functions of American higher education that colleges and universities have acquired over the past two hundred years and that are integral to liberal democracy: social mobility, citizenship education, the discovery and communication of knowledge, and the cultivation of a pluralistic society. Each chapter takes up one of these functions to analyze and assess"-- Provided by publisher.