The Postmodern University?
Subtitle: Contested Visions of Higher Education in Society (Society for Research into Higher Education)
Contributors: Anthony Smith (Editor); Frank Webster (Editor)
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: October 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780335199594
Subjects: Philosophy of education; Postmodernism; Universities / polytechnics; Aims And Objectives Of Higher Education; Education / Teaching; Education; USA; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Comparative; Educational Policy & Reform; Higher; Congresses; Education, Higher; Educational change; Great Britain; Social aspects; United States
First sentence: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the meaning of the word 'university', agreed no less than nine hundred years ago, is the gathering of teachers and students in pursuit of the higher learning.