American academic cultures : a history of higher education / Paul H. Mattingly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattingly, Paul H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--United States--History.

Education, Higher.

Education--United States--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 423 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago, [2017]

Summary:

At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it’s seen as something more than a linear progress through time. With American Academic Cultures, he offers a different type of history of American higher learning, showing how its current state is the product of different, varied generational cultures, each grounded in its own moment in time and driven by historically distinct values that generated specific problems and responses. Mattingly sketches out seven broad generational cultures: evangelical, Jeffersonian, republican/nondenominational, industrially driven, progressively pragmatic, internationally minded, and the current corporate model. What we see through his close analysis of each of these cultures in their historical moments is that the politics of higher education, both inside and outside institutions, are ultimately driven by the dominant culture of the time. By looking at the history of higher education in this new way, Mattingly opens our eyes to our own moment, and the part its culture plays in generating its politics and promise.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One • The Great Awakening and the Eighteenth-Century Colleges

Chapter Two • Enlightenment and Denominationalism in Jefferson’s Virginia

Chapter Three • Antebellum Colleges and the Inculcation of Moral Character

Chapter Four • Science and System in Nineteenth-Century Collegiate Culture

Chapter Five • Land-G rant Colleges and the Emergence of an Academic Space

Chapter Six • The Generic University

Chapter Seven • Educated Women and the Inflation of Domesticity

Chapter Eight • The Academic Culture of Nineteenth-Century Collegians

Chapter Nine • Progressive Ideology in American Higher Education

Chapter Ten • Academic Expertise in the National Interest

Chapter Eleven • The Other Captains of Erudition: From Science to General Education

Chapter Twelve • From the Liberal Core to an International Discourse

Chapter Thirteen • Federal Policy and the Postwar University

Chapter Fourteen • Clark Kerr: The Unapologetic Pragmatist

Chapter Fifteen • Challenging Pragmatism

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226505435

022650543X

OCLC:

1233040937