Utopian Colleges

Author : Miles Taylor,Jill Pellew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350138650

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Utopian Universities by Miles Taylor,Jill Pellew Pdf

In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970. This volume offers a comparative and connective global history of these institutions, illustrating how their establishment, intellectual output and pedagogical experimentation sheds light on the social and cultural topography of the long 1960s. With an impressive geographic coverage - using case studies from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia - the book explores how these universities have influenced academic disciplines and pioneered new types of teaching, architectural design and student experience. From educational reform in West Germany to the establishment of new institutions with progressive, interdisciplinary curricula in the Commonwealth, the illuminating case studies of this volume demonstrate how these universities shared in a common cause: the embodiment of 'utopian' ideals of living, learning and governance. At a time when the role of higher education is fiercely debated, Utopian Universities is a timely and considered intervention that offers a wide-ranging, historical dimension to contemporary predicaments.

Author : Constance Cappel
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015045999490

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Utopian Colleges by Constance Cappel Pdf

Discouraged with the state of higher education in the United States, Dr. Constance Cappel visited over fifty institutions of higher education worldwide. Pooling from her experiences, Dr. Cappel described five examples of «utopian colleges, » where she was ultimately either a student or an employee. The resulting study, Utopian Colleges, examines both the strengths and weaknesses of any human institution. Utopian Colleges gives both historical and contemporary insights into American higher education that are both experimental and progressive.

Author : Utopian schools
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : School discipline
ISBN : OXFORD:591003765

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Author : Miles Taylor,Jill Pellew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350138643

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Utopian Universities by Miles Taylor,Jill Pellew Pdf

In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970. This volume offers a comparative and connective global history of these institutions, illustrating how their establishment, intellectual output and pedagogical experimentation sheds light on the social and cultural topography of the long 1960s. With an impressive geographic coverage - using case studies from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia - the book explores how these universities have influenced academic disciplines and pioneered new types of teaching, architectural design and student experience. From educational reform in West Germany to the establishment of new institutions with progressive, interdisciplinary curricula in the Commonwealth, the illuminating case studies of this volume demonstrate how these universities shared in a common cause: the embodiment of 'utopian' ideals of living, learning and governance. At a time when the role of higher education is fiercely debated, Utopian Universities is a timely and considered intervention that offers a wide-ranging, historical dimension to contemporary predicaments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : School discipline
ISBN : BL:A0019032632

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Author : Hanna Holborn Gray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520270657

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Searching for Utopia by Hanna Holborn Gray Pdf

In Searching for Utopia, Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of today’s research institutions. In particular, she examines the ideas of former University of California president Clark Kerr as expressed in The Uses of the University, written during the tumultuous 1960s. She contrasts Kerr’s vision of the research-driven “multiveristy” with the traditional liberal educational philosophy espoused by Kerr’s contemporary, former University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins. Gray’s insightful analysis shows that both Kerr, widely considered a realist, and Hutchins, seen as an oppositional idealist, were utopians. She then surveys the liberal arts tradition and the current state of liberal learning in the undergraduate curriculum within research universities. As Gray reflects on major trends and debates since the 1960s, she illuminates the continuum of utopian thinking about higher education over time, revealing how it applies even in today’s climate of challenge.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : CUB:U183051268627

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FCC Record by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Victoria W. Wolcott
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438497501

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Utopian Imaginings by Victoria W. Wolcott Pdf

"Sometimes that's all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time." These words were spoken by a fictional character in N. K. Jemisin's 2019 utopian novella Emergency Skin. But the idea of saving the world through utopian imaginings has a deep and profound history. At this moment of rupture—with the related crises of the pandemic, racial uprisings, and climate change converging—Utopian Imaginings revisits this history to show how utopian thought and practice offer alternative paths to the future. The third book in the Humanities to the Rescue series, the volume examines both lived and imagined utopian communities from an interdisciplinary perspective. While attentive to the troubled and troubling elements of different spaces and collectives, Utopian Imaginings remains premised in hope, culminating in a series of inspiring exemplars of the utopian potential of the college classroom today.

Author : J. C. Davis,Miguel Ángel Ramiro Avilés
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849666855

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Utopian Moments by J. C. Davis,Miguel Ángel Ramiro Avilés Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Is it possible to create a better world? Can this be done without the image of an ideal world to guide us? What would such a world be like? There has been a marked renewal of interest in utopian thought, as the exposed economic, social and political dysfunctions of modern society have forced us to re-examine our visions of the future. Yet the wealth of utopian literature on which we could draw remains inaccessible or poorly understood. This book readdresses this imbalance, with a collection of essays, each centred on a key passage in a canonical utopian work that challenges the commonly accepted interpretation of that work and allows us to examine it with fresh insight. At the same time, by contextualising each passage within the text as a whole, readers are enabled to reflect on the meaning and reception of the work and on its significance in the history of utopian thought. Broad in scope and original in approach, this textbook is an encouragement to students and scholars alike to read the utopian classics afresh.

Author : Ronald Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351762410

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The Ecological University by Ronald Barnett Pdf

Universities continue to expand, bringing considerable debate about their purposes and relationship to the world. In The Ecological University, Ronald Barnett argues that universities are short of their potential and responsibilities in an ever-changing and challenging environment. This book centres on the idea that the expansion of higher education has opened new spaces and possibilities. The university is interconnected with a number of ecosystems: knowledge, social institutions, persons, the economy, learning, culture and the natural environment. These seven ecosystems of the university are all fragile and in order to advance and develop them universities need to engage with each one. By looking at matters such as the challenges of learning, professional life and research and inquiry, this book outlines just what it could mean for higher education institutions to understand and realize themselves as exemplars of the ecological university. With bold and original insights and practical principles for development, this radical and transformative book is essential reading for university leaders and administrators, academics, students, and all interested in the future of the university.

Author : Laurence Davis,Peter Stillman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739158203

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The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed by Laurence Davis,Peter Stillman Pdf

The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions—and snares—of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever collection of original essays devoted to Le Guin's novel. Among the topics covered in this wide-ranging, international and interdisciplinary collection are the anarchist, ecological, post-consumerist, temporal, revolutionary, and open-ended utopian politics of The Dispossessed. The book concludes with an essay by Le Guin written specially for this volume, in which she reassesses the novel in light of the development of her own thinking over the past 30 years.

Author : Carl J. Guarneri
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501725289

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The Utopian Alternative by Carl J. Guarneri Pdf

The utopian socialism of Charles Fourier spread throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was in the United States that it generated the most intense excitement. In this rich and engaging narrative, Carl J. Guarneri traces the American Fourierist movement from its roots in the religious, social, and economic upheavals of the 1830s, through its bold communal experiments of the 1840s, to its lingering twilight after the Civil War.

Author : Frank Edward MANUEL,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel,Frank Edward Manuel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674040564

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Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank Edward MANUEL,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel,Frank Edward Manuel Pdf

The authors have structured five centuries of utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social and moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life and of the socio-economic, religious, and political exigencies of his time.

Author : J. C. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521275512

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Utopia and the Ideal Society by J. C. Davis Pdf

This text provides a major study for all those working in the fields of 16th- and 17th-century political and social thought.

Author : Dr Clint Jones,Mr Cameron Ellis
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472428943

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The Individual and Utopia by Dr Clint Jones,Mr Cameron Ellis Pdf

Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.