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What Universities Owe Democracy
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy and education.
- Education, Higher.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Johns Hopkins University Press 2021
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This book identifies four distinct functions of American higher education that colleges and universities have acquired over the past two hundred years and that are integral to liberal democracy: social mobility, citizenship education, the discovery and communication of knowledge, and the cultivation of a pluralistic society. Each chapter takes up one of these functions to analyze and assess"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- American dreams : access, mobility, fairness
- Free minds : educating democratic citizens
- Hard facts : knowledge creation and checking power
- Purposeful pluralism : dialogue across difference on campus
- Conclusion.
- ISBN:
- 9781421444307
- 1421444305
- 9781421442709
- 1421442701
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