首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
In the past, American colleges and universities were created to serve a dual purpose—to advance learning and to offer a chance t
In the past, American colleges and universities were created to serve a dual purpose—to advance learning and to offer a chance t
admin
2013-11-29
87
问题
In the past, American colleges and universities were created to serve a dual purpose—to advance learning and to offer a chance to become familiar with bodies of knowledge already discovered to those who wished it. To create and to impart, these were the hallmarks of American higher education prior to the most recent, tumultuous decades of the twentieth century. (71)
The successful institution of higher learning had never been one whose mission could be defined in terms of providing vocational skills or as a strategy for resolving societal problems.
In a subtle way Americans believed postsecondary education to be useful, but not necessarily of immediate use. What the students obtained in college became beneficial in later life—residually, without direct application in the period after graduation.
(72)
One need only be reminded of the change in language describing the two-year college to appreciate the new value currently being attached to the concept of a service-related university.
The traditional two-year college has shed its pejorative "junior" college label and is generally called a "community" college, a clearly valueladen expression representing the latest commitment in higher education. (73)
Even the doctoral degrees long recognized as a required "union card" in the academic worlds has come under severe criticism as the pursuit of learning for its own sake and the accumulation of knowledge without immediate application to a professor’s classroom duties.
The idea of a college or university that performs a triple function—communicating knowledge to students, expanding the content of various disciplines, and interacting in a direct relationship with the society—has been the most important change in higher education in recent years.
This novel development is often overlooked. Educators have always been familiar with those parts of the two-year college curriculum that have a "service" or vocational orientation. (74)
Knowing this, otherwise perceptive commentaries on American postsecondary education underplay the impact of the attempt of colleges and universities to relate to, if not resolves the problems of the society.
Whether the subject under review is student unrest, faculty tenure, the nature of the curriculum, the onset of collective bargaining, or the growth of collegiate bureaucracies, in each instance the thrust of these discussions obscures the larger meaning of the emergence of the service-university in American higher education. Even the highly regarded critique of Clark Kerr, currently head of the Carnegie Foundation, which set the parameters of academic debate around the evolution of the so-called "multiversity", failed to take account of this phenomenon and the manner in which its fulfillment changed the scope of higher education. To the extent that the idea of "multiversity" centered on matters of scale—how big is too big? How complex is too complex? —it obscured the fundamental question posed by the service-university: what is higher education supposed to do? (75)
Unless the commitment to what Samuel Gould has properly called the "communiversity" is clearly articulated, the success of any college or university in achieving its service-education functions will be effectively impaired.
选项
答案
除非萨米尔·基乐德恰当地称之为“社会大学”的任务明确表达出来,否则大专院校在服务性教育功能方面的成功可能性将大为削弱。
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/knhO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Theincreaseinglobaltrademeansthatinternationalcompaniescannotaffordtomakecostlyadvertisingmistakesiftheywantt
Theincreaseinglobaltrademeansthatinternationalcompaniescannotaffordtomakecostlyadvertisingmistakesiftheywantt
Americansfinditdifficulttothinkaboutoldageuntiltheyarepropelledintothemidstofitbytheirownagingandthatof
Thecurrentpoliticaldebateoverfamilyvalues,personalresponsibility,andwelfaretakesforgrantedtheentrenchedAmerican
Thecurrentpoliticaldebateoverfamilyvalues,personalresponsibility,andwelfaretakesforgrantedtheentrenchedAmerican
Thecurrentpoliticaldebateoverfamilyvalues,personalresponsibility,andwelfaretakesforgrantedtheentrenchedAmerican
ThePritzkerArchitecturePrizewasestablishedbytheHyattFoundationin1979tohonorannuallyalivingarchitectwhosebuilt
ThePritzkerArchitecturePrizewasestablishedbytheHyattFoundationin1979tohonorannuallyalivingarchitectwhosebuilt
$50billionmightseemalotofmoney,butit’samere______intermsofwhatglobalcapitalmarketscananddoabsorb.
AstheyturnedintoUpshotRisewherehisparentslived,JackletgoofRuth’shand.UpshotRisewasnotahand-holdingstreet.W
随机试题
改革应遵循的基本原则是什么?
设矩阵A与B相似,其中(1)求x和y的值;(2)求可逆矩阵P,使得p-1AP=B.
“长风破浪会有时,直挂云帆济沧海”这两句诗出自()
A.2000cGyB.3000cGyC.4000cGyD.5000cGy以上E.6000cGy以上食管癌放射治疗中,有文献报道:在受量多少可出现放射性脊髓炎,发生率在0.5%
结转本月发生的各项损益。计算并确认本月应交所得税,企业适用的所得税税率为25%(假设不考虑调整因素)。
以下关于管沟土(石)方的说法正确的是( )。
以下不会增强公司的变现能力的因素是()。
区域经济一体化从低到高的层次?简要评价中国的区域经济一体化的现状。应采取何种对策?[南开大学2015国际商务硕士]
Whatmaterialswerenotusedforroadsurfacesduringthelastcentury?
Inthissection,youwillhearashortpassage.Thereare10missingwordsorphrases.Fillintheblankswiththeexactwordso
最新回复
(
0
)