Lester F Goodchild
Biographic Data
| ID | 1583907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lester F Goodchild |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lester F |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodchild |
| SIGNATURE | GOODCHILD L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hall, Granville Stanley (1844–1924)
Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts
Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts is the first comprehensive regional history of American higher education. It offers new historical research on how societal f
G. Stanley Hall and an American Social Darwinist Pedagogy: His Progressive Educational Ideas on Gender and Race
President G. Stanley Hall hung only a portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson in his office at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. The philosopher embodied Hall's most cherished mid-nineteenth century ideas that comprised part of his intellectual worldview. In the 1840s, Emerson reflected on his transcendental concepts of the common mind and instinct, which held all innate human knowledge and behavioral patterns, in his Essays: There is one min…
Oxbridge's Tudor Gothic Influences on American Academic Architecture
Since the founding of Harvard College in 1636, Oxford and Cambridge have significantly influenced American institutions of higher learning. Yet, their architectural legacy has received scant attention. This article addresses this important dimension in four ways. First, the architectural historiography of American higher education is discussed by reviewing both comprehensive works and institutional histories of colleges and universities. The seco…
Contemporary undergraduate education: An era of alternatives and reassessment
Understanding Quantitative History
Quantitative analysis is a fundamental mode of thought in the modern world, and quantitative reasoning is one of the most powerful tools available for the study and interpretation of historical events. By using examples from published historical works, Understanding Quantitative History provides historians and nonhistorians with an introductory guide to descriptive statistics, sampling and multivariate analysis, and formal reasoning. The book wil…
What Is the Condition of American Research Universities
Bruce Wilshire’s The Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation challenges the internal constituencies of research universities to assess the moral condition of their institutions. His critique emanates from a university apocalyptic literature which has been most prolific during the three undergraduate curricular crises of this century. The proponents of this genre often create negative caricatures in their desire t…
City of Wisdom: A Christian Vision of the American University . David J. Hassel
G. Stanley Hall and an American Social Darwinist Pedagogy: His Progressive Educational Ideas on Gender and Race
President G. Stanley Hall hung only a portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson in his office at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. The philosopher embodied Hall's most cherished mid-nineteenth century ideas that comprised part of his intellectual worldview. In the 1840s, Emerson reflected on his transcendental concepts of the common mind and instinct, which held all innate human knowledge and behavioral patterns, in his Essays: There is one min…
Understanding Quantitative History
Quantitative analysis is a fundamental mode of thought in the modern world, and quantitative reasoning is one of the most powerful tools available for the study and interpretation of historical events. By using examples from published historical works, Understanding Quantitative History provides historians and nonhistorians with an introductory guide to descriptive statistics, sampling and multivariate analysis, and formal reasoning. The book wil…
Oxbridge's Tudor Gothic Influences on American Academic Architecture
Since the founding of Harvard College in 1636, Oxford and Cambridge have significantly influenced American institutions of higher learning. Yet, their architectural legacy has received scant attention. This article addresses this important dimension in four ways. First, the architectural historiography of American higher education is discussed by reviewing both comprehensive works and institutional histories of colleges and universities. The seco…
What Is the Condition of American Research Universities
Bruce Wilshire’s The Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation challenges the internal constituencies of research universities to assess the moral condition of their institutions. His critique emanates from a university apocalyptic literature which has been most prolific during the three undergraduate curricular crises of this century. The proponents of this genre often create negative caricatures in their desire t…
City of Wisdom: A Christian Vision of the American University . David J. Hassel
What Is the Condition of American Research Universities
Bruce Wilshire’s The Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation challenges the internal constituencies of research universities to assess the moral condition of their institutions. His critique emanates from a university apocalyptic literature which has been most prolific during the three undergraduate curricular crises of this century. The proponents of this genre often create negative caricatures in their desire t…
Understanding Quantitative History
Quantitative analysis is a fundamental mode of thought in the modern world, and quantitative reasoning is one of the most powerful tools available for the study and interpretation of historical events. By using examples from published historical works, Understanding Quantitative History provides historians and nonhistorians with an introductory guide to descriptive statistics, sampling and multivariate analysis, and formal reasoning. The book wil…
Contemporary undergraduate education: An era of alternatives and reassessment
Oxbridge's Tudor Gothic Influences on American Academic Architecture
Since the founding of Harvard College in 1636, Oxford and Cambridge have significantly influenced American institutions of higher learning. Yet, their architectural legacy has received scant attention. This article addresses this important dimension in four ways. First, the architectural historiography of American higher education is discussed by reviewing both comprehensive works and institutional histories of colleges and universities. The seco…
G. Stanley Hall and an American Social Darwinist Pedagogy: His Progressive Educational Ideas on Gender and Race
President G. Stanley Hall hung only a portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson in his office at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. The philosopher embodied Hall's most cherished mid-nineteenth century ideas that comprised part of his intellectual worldview. In the 1840s, Emerson reflected on his transcendental concepts of the common mind and instinct, which held all innate human knowledge and behavioral patterns, in his Essays: There is one min…
Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts
Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts is the first comprehensive regional history of American higher education. It offers new historical research on how societal f
Hall, Granville Stanley (1844–1924)
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)