Centers of learning: Britain, France, Germany, United States

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"The universities of Britain, France, Germany, and the United States stem from a common European academic tradition and are today among the most influential and powerful in the world. Each has cultivated a high degree of scientific and intellectual autonomy and has served as a model for world higher education. Yet, those four systems are structurally distinct and show considerably different patterns of development. In Centers of Learning Joseph Ben-David sxplores these differences and provides …

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Full title :Centers of learning : Britain, France, Germany, United States / Joseph Ben-David ; with a new introduction by Philip G. Altbach.

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Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9781351529662, 1351529668, 9781351529655, 135152965X
oclc:ocn994145588
LC Classification:LA173
Dewey Decimal:378

Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Modern Higher Education: Its Emergence and Structure -- chapter 3 Education for the Professions -- chapter 4 General Higher Education -- chapter 5 Research and Training for Research -- chapter 6 Universities, Politics, and Social Criticism -- chapter 7 Universities, Social Justice, and Equality -- chapter 8 Higher Education Today: Problems and Challenges.

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Éducation comparée Education, Higher Education, Higher -- France Education, Higher -- Germany Education, Higher -- Great Britain Education, Higher -- United States Enseignement supérieur Enseignement supérieur -- Allemagne Enseignement supérieur -- France Enseignement supérieur -- Grande-Bretag… France Germany Great Britain Politique et éducation Sociologie de l'éducation United States