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In Searching for Utopia, Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of today's research institutions. In particular, she examines the ideas of former University of California president Clark Kerr as expressed in The Uses of the University, written during th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gray, Hanna Holborn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Universities and colleges.
School management and organization.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
HISTORY > United States > General.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Administration scolaire.
Enseignement superieur > Finalites.
Universites > États-Unis.
Enseignement superieur > Finalites > États-Unis.
Universities and colleges > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Searching for Utopia, Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of today's research institutions. In particular, she examines the ideas of former University of California president Clark Kerr as expressed in The Uses of the University, written during the tumultuous 1960s. She contrasts Kerr's vision of the research-driven "multiveristy" with the traditional liberal educational philosophy espoused by Kerr's contemporary, former University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins. Gray's insightful analysis shows that both Kerr, widely considered a realist, and Hutchins, seen as an oppositional idealist, were utopians.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (130 pages).
ISBN:9780520951709

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