Public Universities and the Public Sphere

Informationen zum Autor WOODRUFF D. SMITH Professor of History and formerly Dean of the Liberal Arts Faculty at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Klappentext Public Universities and the Public Sphere argues that two crises facing America - a crisis of public discourse and a crisis of public higher education - are closely connected. Part of the solution! Smith argues in this timely work! to both crises lies in understanding and building on the connection. Zusammenfassung Public Universities and the Public Sphere argues that two crises facing America - a crisis of public discourse and a crisis of public higher education - are closely connected. Part of the solution! Smith argues in this timely work! to both crises lies in understanding and building on the connection. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Core Public Sphere: What It Is and Why It Needs Help Why is Public Higher Education in Trouble? Building the Core Public Sphere The Public Sphere and the Construction of the Modern American University Public Universities and the Democratization of the Core Public Sphere Occlusion and Its Consequences What Should Be Done?

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The Core Public Sphere: What It Is and Why It Needs Help Why is Public Higher Education in Trouble? Building the Core Public Sphere The Public Sphere and the Construction of the Modern American University Public Universities and the Democratization of the Core Public Sphere Occlusion and Its Consequences What Should Be Done?

Product details

• Authors: W Smith, W. Smith
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349291564
• ISBN: 978-1-349-29156-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; B, Sociology of Education, Education, philosophy of education, geology, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Organization and Leadership, higher education, Philosophy & theory of education, Social research & statistics, Educational Philosophy, Education—Philosophy, Educational sociology, School management and organization, Educational administration & organization, School administration, Philosophy and social sciences, Palgrave Education Collection, Structural Geology, Geomorphology & geological surface processes