Global Tunes and National Melodies: Being Global and Sounding Local

David Eastwood
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Chapter 3 in The Globalization of Higher Education, 2012, pp 34-39 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Traditionally a university has been defined by, and indeed defined itself as, a place. Its architecture and its very physical conception embodied its form. In the medieval and early-modern periods, God and scholastically revealed knowledge was at its centre, so the chapel dominated. Then, following the example of the eighteenth-century German Aufklärung tradition, Thomas Jefferson boldly put the library at the centre of his University of Virginia in Charlottesville. With this a new symbolic notion of the university as a place was born, with secular knowledge, and increasingly contested knowledge, at the heart of the university.

Keywords: High Education; High Education System; Sounding Local; National High Education; High Education Market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137265050_3

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