Wisdom's workshop [electronic resource] : the rise of the modern university

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서명/저자사항	Wisdom's workshop [electronic resource]: the rise of the modern university / James Axtell.
개인저자	Axtell, James, author.
발행사항	Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2016].
형태사항	1 online resource.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Axtell, James. Wisdom's workshop 9780691149592
ISBN	9781400880423 1400880424
기타표준부호	10.1515/9781400880423doi
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Foundings -- Oxbridge -- The collegiate way abroad -- A land of colleges -- The German impress -- Coming of age -- Multiversities and beyond.
요약	When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide. Despite hand-wringing reports to the contrary, the venerable university continues to renew itself, becoming ever more indispensable to society in the United States and beyond.Born in Europe, the university did not mature in America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded greatly during World War II and the Cold War. Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and hundreds of pre-Civil War colleges, and delves into how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic conditions and goals. The graduate school, the PhD, and the research imperative became and remain the hallmarks of the American university system and higher education institutions around the globe.A rich exploration of the historical lineage of today's research universities, Wisdom's Workshop explains the reasons for their ascendancy in America and their continued international preeminence.
일반주제명	Education, Higher --History. Education, Higher. EDUCATION / Higher EDUCATION / Administration / Higher
분류기호(DDC)	378
언어	In English.
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