The European and American University since

Universities are said to be the "powerhouses" of modern society. They educate our leaders and advance our basic knowledge of nature and society. The essays in this book discuss how universities work, and have worked, in relation to other parts of the higher education "system" and in the context of their historical development. The authors are particularly interested in "complexity" as it affects universities, the professions and government, and exercise comparative analysis in assessing the functioning, the success and the significance of universities.

Notes on the contributors
Introduction: universities and -higher education-
Fact and Ideals in Liberal Education
The limbs of Osiris: liberal education in the English-speaking world
In search of Isis: general education in Germany and Sweden
The State, the University, and the Professions
The transformation of professional education in the nineteenth century
From practise to school-based professional education: patterns of conflict and accommodation in England, France and the United States
The Ambiguities of University Research in Sweden and the United States
Universities, research, and the transformation of the state in Sweden
Research, graduate education, and the ecology of American universities: an interpretative history
Complexity
The problem of complexity in modern higher education
Comparative perspectives on British and American higher education
The Ironies of University History
The modern university: the three transformations
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The European and American University since 1800

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