Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy / / George Fallis.
Multiversities are sprawling conglomerates that provide liberal undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. As well-springs of innovation and ideas, these universities represent the core of society?s research enterprise. Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy forcibly argues that, in the cont...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part One: The Emergence of the Multiversity
- 2. The Idea of a University
- 3. The Uses of the Multiversity in Postindustrial Society
- 4. The Multiversity and the Welfare State
- 5. A Social Contract: Tasks, Autonomy, and Academic Freedom
- Part Two: The Character of Our Age
- 6. The Constrained Welfare State
- 7. The Information Technology Revolution
- 8. Postmodern Thought
- 9. Commercialization
- 10. Globalization
- Part Three: Renewing the Social Contract
- 11. The Multiversity and Liberal Democracy
- 12. A Liberal Education for Our Age
- Notes
- References
- Index