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Multiversities are sprawling conglomerates that provide liberal undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. As well-springs of innovation and ideas, these universities represent the core of society?s research enterprise. Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy forcibly argues that, in the cont...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fallis, George, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Research institutes.
Universities and colleges > Research.
Education, Humanistic.
Academies and Institutes
Enseignement supérieur > Finalités.
Centres de recherche.
Recherche universitaire.
Éducation humaniste.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Education, Humanistic
Research institutes
Universities and colleges > Research
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Emergence of the multiversity
  • The idea of a university
  • The uses of the multiversity in postindustrial society
  • The multiversity and the welfare state
  • A social contract : tasks, autonomy, and academic freedom
  • The character of our age
  • The constrained welfare state
  • The information technology revolution
  • Postmodern thought
  • Commercialization
  • Globalization
  • Renewing the social contract
  • The multiversity and liberal democracy
  • A liberal education for our age.

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