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Informationen zum Autor By Stephen J. Nelson Klappentext This book presents the issues, controversies, and key players that formed and enabled the American college and university to endure as a critical institution of the nation and society. Zusammenfassung This book presents the issues! controversies! and key players that formed and enabled the American college and university to endure as a critical institution of the nation and society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Religion in the Nation and the AcademyChapter 2 The University: What is It and How Does Its Center Hold?Chapter 3 Contentious Compatibility and the Common Good: The University as Servant and Critic in a DemocracyChapter 4 The Purpose of the College: Clashes over Liberal Education and Ideas that PrevailChapter 5 The Rise of the University: The Influence of Progressivism and the Social GospelChapter 6 Battles over Liberty, Academic Freedom and Free SpeechChapter 7 The Disuniting of America and the University: A Reprise of Academic Freedom and the Threat of Balkanization in the Quest for Pluralism and DiversityChapter 8 The Contemporary Ideological World of the McCarthy Era to Present: Political Rightness and Wrong-HeadednessChapter 9 A Coda: The Concept of a University in America and the Culture We Deserve

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• Authors: Stephen J Nelson, Stephen J. Nelson, Stephen James Nelson, Nelson Stephen J.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2016
• EAN: 9781498515566
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1556-6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, EDUCATION / History, History of Education, United States of America, USA, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, education policy;History and theory of education