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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"history of higher education"”.
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A Historical Analysis of Women Student Activities during the Inter War Years 1918 -1941
The study of women in higher education has been compartmentalized from the overall history of higher education. Educational historians continue to influence future discovery on the higher education of women by continuing to reinforce the master narrative of women in history. Acknowledging and …
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To Advance a Race: A Historical Analysis of the Intersection of Personal Belief, Industrial Philanthropy and Black Liberal Arts Higher Education in Fayette McKenzie's Presidency at Fisk University, 1915-1925
… industrial philanthropy, and American culture of the period played in McKenzie's administration. The research seeks to provide a more complete narrative of McKenzie's administration that is absent from current scholarship, and examine how McKenzie's work at Fisk helped advance Black liberal …
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Higher education and the gendering of space in England and Wales, 1869–1909
The admission of women students to English and Welsh universities in the second half of the nineteenth century was not the only marker of change in what was a tumultuous phase in the history of higher education. This dissertation explores how the emergence of women as a new category of student …
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The discourse of the marketisation of higher education : a case study of a post-92 university
… thesis proposes that the discursive practices of marketisation are transforming and degrading the distinctive educational character, meaning and operations of higher education; that the discourse and habitus of higher educations’ constitutive elements are being usurped by an economic ethos and …
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Higher education as a field of study at historically black colleges and universities
Higher education as a field of study has an extensive history in the United States of America. However, regrettably, this history has segments working in obscurity. One such segment was the work of graduate programs in the field of higher education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities …
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A Historical Review and Financial Analysis of Higher Education Funding in Tennessee.
<p>This was a study of the development of an objective funding method for public higher education institutions in Tennessee. The review covers the history of higher education funding from the early 1800s through the beginning of the twenty-first century with emphasis on the early 1960s through the …
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How Much Do We Practice?: Defining a Course of Study for the Applied Pianist
Histories of higher education isolate the conservatory/music school from their purview by omission, while histories of music education and individual music schools give overviews but do not address in depth the traditions, development, effects, and tensions buried within courses of study and the …
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Social Stratification, Cultural Identities, and Politics of Leadership: The Consolidation of a National Culture at a Papua New Guinean University
… in Papua New Guinea (PNG) experience processes of social stratification and differentiation. In particular, I describe and analyse how students and staff reflect on and enact reciprocal obligations to their kin, how different cultural identities are forged and strengthened at university, and how …
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Cooperation without consensus: national discussions and local implementation in general education reform, 1930–1960
This study explores the general education movement of 1930-1960—a movement devoted to revising the content, and methods, of reforming the first two years of postsecondary study for undergraduates. It begins by noting that much of the extant literature focuses on the curricular statements produced …
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Impacts of Childbearing on College Success: A Study of Two Generations
… and contextual variables most predictive of bachelor’s degree attainment. The regressions were conducted for women overall, women who have ever enrolled in college, mothers, and mothers who have ever enrolled in college. There were several major findings from this study. First, having a …
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History Writing and History Making in Twentieth Century Beirut
This dissertation takes the idea of modern history as its subject of study. It investigates one thread of Arab historicism—belief in the primacy of history as the key to all human knowledge—by examining the intellectual and pedagogical endeavours of Constantine Zurayq (1909-2000) and his ilk. In …