What Universities Owe Democracy /
"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 culti...
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.