A History of the University in Europe: Volume 4, Universities since 1945

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Cambridge University Press, 12/16/2010
EAN 9780521361088, ISBN10: 0521361087

Hardcover, 660 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
Language: English

This is the final volume in a four-part series covering the development of the university in Europe (east and west) from its origins to the present day, focusing on a number of major themes viewed from a European perspective. The originality of the series lies in its comparative, interdisciplinary, collaborative and transnational nature. It deals also with the content of what was taught at the universities, but its main purpose is an appreciation of the role and structures of the universities as seen against a backdrop of changing conditions, ideas and values. This volume deals with the reconstruction and epoch-making expansion of higher education after 1945, which led to the triumph of modern science. It traces the development of the relationship between universities and national states, teachers and students, their ambitions and political activities. Special attention is paid to fundamental changes in the content of teaching at the universities.

Foreword Walter RÃƒÂ¼egg
Part I. Themes and Patterns
1. Themes Walter RÃƒÂ¼egg
2. Patterns Guy Neave
Part II. Structures
3. Relations with authority Walter RÃƒÂ¼egg and Jan Sadlack
4. Management and resources Geoffrey Lockwood
5. Teachers Thomas Finkenstaedt
Part III. Students
6. Admission A. H. Halsey
7. Curriculum, students, education Sheldon Rothblatt
8. Student movements and political activism Louis Vos
9. Graduation and careers Ulrich Teichler
Part IV. Learning
10. Social sciences, history and law Notker Hammerstein and Dirk Heirbaut
11. The mathematical, exact sciences John Ziman
12. The biological sciences Herbert Macgregor
13. Earth sciences Gordon Craig and S. K. Monro
14. Medicine John Ellis
15. Technology Christopher Watson
Epilogue
prospects for the universities
a personal view Andris Barblan
Appendix
universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995 Walter RÃƒÂ¼egg.