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Beyond the modern university : toward a constructive postmodern university / Marcus Peter Ford.
Van Pelt Library LB2322.2 .F67 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ford, Marcus Peter, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism and higher education.
- Education, Higher--Philosophy.
- Education, Higher.
- Environmental education.
- Education, Higher--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 131 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
- Summary:
- Challenges the most basic ideas of what the university is and offers a profoundly different model, one that has as its focus the environmental and social issues of the 21st century.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 A Social History of the University 19
- Chapter 2 The Modern Research University and the Loss of Intellectual Coherence 39
- Chapter 3 A Brief Overview of Western Thought and Its Implications for the Social and the Natural World 53
- Chapter 4 The Philosophy of Organism: An Alternative Worldview 75
- Chapter 5 Some Aspects of a Postmodern University 95
- Chapter 6 Getting There 117.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0897897943
- OCLC:
- 49705091
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