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Book Description
Argues that outdated institutional structures and higher educational philosophies are negatively contrasting with significant changes in today's faculties and ...
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nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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Review: 'The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University' by Louis Menand
Why does it take ten-odd years to complete a Ph.D. in the humanities and social sciences, and what does this fact reveal about the university’s constitutional intransigence? How did academic disciplines evolve, and how has the professionalization of ... (read full critics)
chicagotribune published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010
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Book Details
- English Books
- Others 174 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0393062759
- ISBN-13: 9780393062755
- Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company
- Pub date: Jul 28, 2009
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The Way We Learn
In the four rigorously reasonable essays in “The Marketplace of Ideas,” Louis Menand takes up four questions about American higher education: “Why is it so hard to institute a general education curriculum? Why did the humanities disciplines undergo a ... (read full critics)