Utopian universities : a global history of the new campuses of the 1960s / edited by Jill Pellew and Miles Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Miles, editor.

Pellew, Jill, editor.

Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public universities and colleges--History--20th century.

Public universities and colleges.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Summary:

"A global and comparative history of newly-established public universities which appeared in the latter half of the 20th century; how they pioneered new types of teaching, architectural design and student experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part 1

1. Learning from Redbrick: Utopianism and architectural legacy of the civic universities / William Whyte

2. Keele: Post-war pioneer / Miles Taylor

3. Sussex: Cold War campus / Matthew Cragoe

4. `A poor man's Oxbridge'?: The founding of the University of York, 1960

73 / Allen Warren

5. The University of East Anglia: From mandarins to neo-liberalism / John Charmley

6. Great expectations: Sloman's Essex and student protest in the long sixties / Caroline Hoefferle

7. Science and the new universities / Jon Agar

8. The new and the old: The University of Kent at Canterbury / Krishan Kumar

9. Social history comes to Warwick / Carolyn Steedman

10. Innovation and evolution: Lancaster learning, 1964

74 / Marion Mcclintock

11. Failed Utopia? The University of Stirling from the 1960s to the early 1980s / Holger Nehring

12. The New University of Ulster and the Northern Ireland crisis / Leonie Murray

13. The new British campus universities of the 1960s and their localities: The culture of support and the role of philanthropy / Jill Pellew

Part 2

14. California dreaming: Clark Kerr and the University of California / Christopher Newfield

15. Utopian universities of the British Commonwealth / Miles Taylor

16. The other 1960s: University leaders as agents of change in Canadian higher education / Paul Axelrod

17. From progressive pedagogy to `capitalist fodder': The new universities in Australia / Hannah Forsyth

18. Jawaharlal Nehru University: A University for the Nation / Shalini Sharma

19. From American dream to nightmare on the left: Student revolts, the `creche sauvage' and the slums: The University of Nanterre, 1962

71 / Victor Collet

20. The reform universities of West Germany: Bochum, Konstanz and Bielefeld / Stefan Paulus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Utopian universities

ISBN:

9781350138636

1350138630

OCLC:

1151186449

Publisher Number:

99987390413