Idea and mission of the modern university

Elena Strogetskaya

Voprosy obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow, 2009, issue 4, 67-81

Abstract: Scrutinized is the structure of notions of the idea and mission of a university, analyzed is the crisis of the classical models of university in the context of the transition from the industrialism to the computerized era. Argued for is the necessity for a modern university for selfdetermination. Considered are the views of modern higher education researchers on the idea of university. The author introduces sociocultural reasons for the formulation of the mission of a modern university and provides arguments for the dependence of structural characteristics of a university on its mission.

Keywords: classical university; neoclassical university; mission of university; idea of university; industrial age; information age; interdisciplinary studies; professions; social networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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