基本説明
With data on faculty and course composition over the twentieth century for a global sample of universities, this book provides an examination unprecedented in scope and scale of changes in academia.
Full Description
Current conversations on the state of academia contain a broad sense of crisis over changes in the body of university knowledge—the decline of literature, the unbridling of ethnic studies, the growth of various applied programs, and so on. Much of the concern revolves around a perceived deterioration of the academic core in which, the thinking goes, the university's teaching and research priorities are increasingly compromised by external financial and political interests.
With data on faculty and course composition over the twentieth century for a global sample of universities, this book provides an examination unprecedented in scope and scale of changes in academia. The authors document the changing emphases accorded the branches of learning, the applied and basic divisions, and the disciplinary fields. They find deep transformations, as anticipated, but offer a new explanation for these shifts. Changes in academic focus are less the work of outside interest groups, but instead are cultural maps to the altering features of globally institutionalized understandings of reality.
Contents
Table of Contents Foreword by John W. Meyer Introduction: The Ongoing Reconstruction of the University 1-52 Chapter 1: The Major Divisions 53-104 Chapter 2: The Humanities 105-137 Chapter 3: The Social Sciences 138-170 Chapter 4: The Natural Sciences 171-204 Chapter 5: The Subjects of History 205-232 Conclusion: Universities and Global Institutions 233-246 Appendices 247-253 Bibliography 254-284 Index
