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Utopian universities a global history of the new campuses of the 1960s

"A global and comparative history of newly-established public universities which appeared in the latter half of the 20th century; how they pioneered new types of teaching, architectural design and student experience"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Taylor, Miles (Editor), Pellew, Jill (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2020, 2020
Edition:First edition
Subjects:
Public Universities And Colleges / History / 20th Century
Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000 / Bicssc
Online Access:
Collection: Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Maps
  • Preface Laurie Taylor (University of York, UK)
  • Introduction Jill Pellew (Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK) and Miles Taylor (University of York, UK)
  • 1. Keele: Post-War Pioneer Miles Taylor (University of York, UK)
  • 2. Learning From Redbrick: Utopianism and Architectural Legacy of the Civic Universities William Whyte (University of Oxford, UK)
  • 3. Sussex: Cold War Campus Matthew Cragoe (University of Lincoln, UK)
  • 4. The University of East Anglia: From Mandarins to Neoliberalism John Charmley (St Mary's University, UK)
  • 5. Oxford on the Ouse?: The Founding of the University of York 1960 to 1973 Allen Warren (University of York, UK)
  • 6. Great Expectations: Sloman's Essex and Student Protest in the 'Long 1960s' Caroline Hoefferle (Wingate University, North Carolina, USA)
  • 7. The New and the Old: the University of Kent at Canterbury Krishan Kumar (University of Virginia, USA)
  • 17. Jawaharlal Nehru University: A University for the Nation Rajat Datta (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) and Shalini Sharma (Keele University, UK)
  • 18. From American Dream to Nightmare on The Left: Student Revolts, the 'Wild Nursery' and the Slums: The University of Nanterre, 1962-71 Victor Collet (University of Paris X, France)
  • 19. The Reform Universities of West Germany: Bochum, Konstanz and Bielefeld Stefan Paulus (University of Augsburg, Germany)
  • 20. Utopian Universities of the British Commonwealth Miles Taylor (University of York, UK)
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • 8. Social History Comes to Warwick Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick, UK)
  • 9. Innovation and Evolution: Lancaster Learning, 1964-74 Marion McClintock (Lancaster University, UK)
  • 10. Failed Utopia? The University of Stirling from the 1960s to the Early 1980s Holger Nehring (University of Stirling, UK)
  • 11. The New University of Ulster and the Northern Ireland Crisis Tom Fraser and Leonie Murray (Ulster University, UK)
  • 12. Science and the New Universities Jon Agar (UCL, UK)
  • 13. The New British Campus Universities of the 1960s and Their Localities: The Culture of Support and the Role of Philanthropy Jill Pellew (University of London, UK)
  • 14. California Dreaming: Clark Kerr and the State University Christopher Newfield (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
  • 15. The Other 60s: Academic Administrators as Agents of Change in Canadian Higher Education Paul Axelrod (York University, Canada)
  • 16. From Progressive Pedagogy to 'Capitalist Fodder': the New Universities in Australia Hannah Forsyth (Australian Catholic University, Australia)

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