The Idea of a University

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23784635
AutoresJohn Henry Newman (0009-0006-9753-0906, autor de correspondencia), John Newman (0000-0002-9978-0689)
EditoresFrank M Turner
Año2017
Fecha de publicación2017-12-31
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaIdea of a University (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialYale University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.12987/9780300153460
OpenAlexW1883470098
ISBN9780300153460
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas142

Since its publication almost 150 years ago, The Idea of a University has had an extraordinary influence on the shaping and goals of higher education. The issues that John Henry Newman raised the place of religion and moral values in the university setting, the competing claims of liberal and professional education, the character of the academic community, the cultural role of literature, the relation of religion and science have provoked discussion from Newman's time to our own. This edition of The Idea of a University includes the full text of "University Teaching" and four selections from "University Subjects," together with five essays by leading scholars that explore the background and the present day relevance of Newman's themes. In the essays Martha Garland discusses the character and organization of the early nineteenth-century English universities upon which Newman based much of his vision; Frank M. Turner traces the impact of Newman's influence during the vast expansion of higher education since World War II; George Marsden investigates how the decreasing emphasis on religion has affected higher education; Sara Castro Klaren examines the implications of Newman's views on education and literature for current debates between proponents of a curriculum based on western civilization and one based on multiculturalism; and George Landow considers what the advent of electronic communication will mean to university teaching, research, and community. To aid accessibility, the edition also includes an analytical table of contents, a chronology and biographical sketch of Newman's life, questions for discussion, expanded notes, and a glossary of names, all of which will help make this the standard teaching text for Newman's work.

Character (mathematics) · Civilization · Curriculum · Glossary · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Catholicism and Religious Studies · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious Education and Schools