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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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Huvudskapare: Daniels, Ronald J. (Ronald Joel), 1959- (Författare, medförfattare), Shreve, Grant, 1984- (Författare, medförfattare), Spector, Phillip, 1976- (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Ämnen:
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Democracy and education.
Enseignement superieur > Finalites > États-Unis.
Democratie et education > États-Unis.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Democracy and education > United States.
United States.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.

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