The Instrumental University : Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II /

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"[This] book shows how, in the post-World War II period, elite research universities moved away from their founding ideals and instead portrayed themselves as instruments for spurring economic development and solving social problems"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schrum, Ethan D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Universities and colleges.
Educational change.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
EDUCATION / Higher
Enseignement > Reforme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Universites > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Enseignement superieur > Finalites > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Educational change > United States > History > 20th century.
Universities and colleges > United States > History > 20th century.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the instrumental university and American modernity
  • The progressive roots of the instrumental university : public administration, city planning, and industrial relations
  • Clark Kerr : leading proponent of the instrumental university
  • The urban university as community service institution : Pennsylvania in the era of Gaylord P. Harnwell
  • Instruments of technical cooperation? : American universities' institution building abroad
  • A use of the University of Michigan : Samuel P. Hayes, Jr. and economic development
  • Founding the University of California at Irvine : high modern social science and technocratic public policy
  • Epilogue : critics of the instrumental university.

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