Universities in Europe: North American Perspectives on European Historiography
Titel:
Universities in Europe: North American Perspectives on European Historiography
Auteur:
Mattingly, Paul Jarausch, Konrad Craig, John Kett, Joseph Turner, James
Verschenen in:
History of education
Paginering:
Jaargang 37 (2008) nr. 3 pagina's 469-490
Jaar:
2008-05
Inhoud:
This 2005 conference dialogue does not attempt to review the formidable A History of the University in Europe, 1800-1945 edited by Walter Ruegg. But it does use this magnificent piece of scholarship to open a discussion of the scholarship on the university, worldwide. The precipitating event was a book session at the Social Science History Convention in Portland, Oregon (2005). The participants are scholars of the higher education discourse and sought to reflect upon the conceptual patterns that have produced our higher education canon. They have found both foundational bedrock and time-bound, limited assumptions about the 'university' in this volume's 16 major essays. The central issue of this critique addresses the methodological problem of how another discourse, say, American higher education, might conceive a different version of the history of the university. In the course of the discussion the participants try to lay out the conceptual guidelines for a new history of higher education.