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What universities owe democracy / Ronald J. Daniels with Grant Shreve and Phillip Spector.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021Description: x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781421442693
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.0973 DAN TESF123 23
Summary: "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 cultivation of a pluralistic society. Each chapter takes up one of these functions to analyze and assess"-- Provided by publisher
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"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 cultivation of a pluralistic society. Each chapter takes up one of these functions to analyze and assess"-- Provided by publisher

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