The First Universities: Studium Generale and the Origins of University Education in Europe 0521594316, 9780521594318

A History of the University in Europe Volume 2, Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) 9780521541145

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A Chance for European Universities: Or: Avoiding the Looming University Crisis in Europe 9089642293, 9789089642295

Europe's universities are very well represented among the world's top 200 universities, but almost absent in t

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Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University 9780226109237

Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academ

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Lowering Higher Education: The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education 9781442693456

While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have

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Education and Climate Change: The Role of Universities 3030579263, 9783030579265

This open access volume draws on a multidimensional model of educational change, the book reviews the field of climate c

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Zur Geschichte und Aktualität des Studium Generale: Past and Present of Liberal Education [1 ed.] 9783412525842, 9783412525828

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Graduate Education in the Sciences in Canadian Universities 9781487584214

This volume not only surveys the development and condition of post-graduate education in the natural sciences, but has i

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A Critique of Universities : Reflections on the Status and Direction of the Modern University 9789935230829, 9789935230737

Whart sort of institution should the university aspire to be? What role should it be playing in the present? How should

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The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe 9780812201895

Throughout the eighteenth century, an ever-sharper distinction emerged between Jews of the old order and those who were

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Values in Conflict: The University, the Marketplace, and the Trials of Liberal Education 9780773570429

An impassioned defence of the liberal arts.

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