The sacred and the secular university /
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Other Authors / Creators: | Turner, James, 1946- |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Language notes: | English. |
Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000. |
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Summary: | Annotation American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this period, U.S. colleges underwent fundamental changes--changes that helped to create the modern university we know today. Most significantly, the study of the sciences and the humanities effectively dissolved the Protestant framework of learning by introducing a new secularized curriculum. This secularization has long been recognized as a decisive turning point in the history of American education. Until now, however, there has been remarkably little attention paid to the details of how this transformation came about. Here, at last, Jon Roberts and James Turner identify the forces and explain the events that reformed the college curriculum during this era. |
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Item Description: | Print version record. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 184 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-175) and index. |
ISBN: | 0691015562 1400813123 1400823501 9780691015569 9781400813124 9781400823505 |
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