TY - BOOK ID - 77894898 TI - The modern university and its discontents : the fate of Newman's legacies in Britain and America PY - 1997 SN - 0511582943 0511006349 9780511006340 0521453313 9780511582943 9780521453318 0521453313 9780521025010 052102501X PB - Cambridge Cambridge University press DB - UniCat KW - Education, Higher KW - College students KW - Higher education KW - Postsecondary education KW - Universities and colleges KW - History. KW - Aims and objectives KW - Education KW - Newman, John Henry, KW - Newman, John Henry KW - 378.4 KW - History KW - Universiteiten KW - 378.4 Universiteiten KW - Enseignement supérieur KW - Finalités KW - Histoire KW - Influence. KW - Influence KW - Catholicus, KW - Newman, KW - Author of Loss and gain, KW - Newman, J. H. (John Henry), KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Education & Careers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894898 AB - This series of interlinked essays takes the form of historical 'voyages' around the Victorian intellectual John Henry Newman, and Newman's classic work The Idea of a University, as well as changes in the structure and culture of universities which occurred in Newman's lifetime. The voyages connect nineteenth- and twentieth-century university history, mainly in Britain and the United States but with side excursions to continental Europe. Among the many important topics discussed are the history of student communities in Oxford and Cambridge, the growth of a modern examinations culture, university architecture and the use of space in connection with educational ideals, urbanism and universities, and the competition of states, markets and academic guilds for the control of universities and the right to define the missions of university professors. ER -