THE MODERNIST MOMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, 1957–1977

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM WHYTE
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Personal Connection ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Urban University ◽  
Architectural Patronage ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTBetween 1957 and 1977 the University of Leeds engaged in a massive programme of rebuilding. Employing the architects Chamberlin, Powell, and Bon, Leeds transformed itself – becoming, in the words of one commentator, ‘Our first contemporary urban university’. Previously ignored by historians, this development in the history of the university illustrates a number of important themes. In the first place, it exemplifies the significance of architecture in defining higher education. Secondly – and more particularly – it shows how both academics and architects hoped to use Brutalist architecture to express the modernity of the University of Leeds. Thus the decision to employ avant-garde designers in the late 1950s and the resolution to dismiss them twenty years later both came from the same modernizing impulse. Thirdly, it shows how personal connection secured architectural patronage in this period. The Development Plan also highlights the way in which architects of the British modern movement used universities as laboratories in which to experiment with ideas about community and proper urban design. The modernist moment at Leeds, then, can be seen as representative of wider trends in British building, not least because it lasted for such a short period of time.

Inside the global teaching machine: MOOCs, academic labour and the future of the university

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

This special issue focused on ‘Digital Media and Contested Visions of Education’ provides an opportunity to examine the tendency to hypothesise a rupture in the history of the university. It does so by contrasting the traditional Humboldtian ideals of the university with a neoliberal marketised version and in order to ask questions concerning evaluations of the quality of higher education within a knowledge economy. Theorising the rupture has led to a variety of different accounts most of which start from an approach in political economy and differ according to how theorists picture this change in capitalism. Roughly speaking the question of whether to see the political economy of using social media in higher education from a state perspective or a network perspective is a critical issue. A state-centric approach is predisposed towards a reading that is based on a critical realist approach of Marxist political economy (Jessop 1993). By contrast an approach that decentres the state and focuses on global networked finance capitalism ironically grows out of a military-university research network created by the U.S. government. Arguably, networks, not states, now constitute the organising global structure (Castells 2009) and while state-centric theory with hierarchical structures are still significant, relational, selforganising and flexible market networks have become the new unit of analysis for understanding the circuits of global capital (Peters 2014; Peters 2009). However, states still have a role to play in norming the networks or providing the governing framework in international law.

scholarly journals La investigación post-disciplinaria como alternativa en comunicación

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 2-23
Author(s):  
Raúl Fuentes Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
Sociocultural Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

This paper takes up previous works by the author and reformulates them to argue that there are increasingly clear indications of the adoption of “post-disciplinary” modalities in the institutionalized practices of knowledge production on communication in various regions of the world. Faced with the growing epistemic fragmentation and dispersion of this academic field, and the evident transformations of the sociocultural practices that are its references and subject matters, post-disciplinary research may represent a useful alternative consistent with the very history of the university institutionalization of this specialty, in which contributions from the humanities and social sciences converge, with apparent independence from the different conditions of national higher education systems. Some of the more developed formulations of this perspective and their strategic implications for university practices in the field are analysed.

A Civic Debate on Florentine Higher Education (1460)

1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gene Brucker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

The recent publication by Armando Verde of a collection of documents on the Pisan Studio (1473-1503) has been recognized as a major contribution to the cultural history of Florence in the late Quattrocento. The yield from years of painstaking research in Florentine and Pisan libraries and archives is made available in four massive volumes, which document the history of the university after its transfer from Florence to Pisa in 1473. Verde has identified the professors who taught, and the 1600 students who were taught, at Pisa and Florence; he has also provided documentation, largely from archival sources, concerning the faculty and the student body: their background and education, their academic and professional careers. He has also collected information on more than one thousand young scholars who were identified in the Florentine tax records (catasto) of 1480 as having been enrolled in schools.

scholarly journals List, który zaginął

2018 ◽  
pp. 273-278
Author(s):  
Andrzej Turowski
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

A Letter That Was Lost Summary The paper presents the history of a letter by Tadeusz Kantor of 1981 that was long lost. Kantor responds in it to a proposal from the Institute of Art History of the University of Poznań to have a series of lectures on the avant-garde. Writing that he had not time for it, he explains in some detail his detachment from the institutional study of the avant-garde at the university, stressing his involvement in the avant-garde activity through his art, in particular the Cricot theater. Kantor insists that the avant-garde does not belong to the public domain, but is a result of the artist’s private experience of anxiety and fear in confrontation with the audience and their emotional response to engaged art.

scholarly journals Las investigaciones sobre la historia de las universidades en Italia. Un balance historiográfico del siglo pasado = Research on the History of Universities in Italy. A Historiographical Overview of the Last Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigiaurelio Pomante
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
History Of Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
Siglo Xx

Resumen:  Este trabajo tiene la intención de reconstruir la historia de la historiografía de la Universidad italiana de los últimos cien años. Desde los primeros intentos de principios del siglo XX en algunas de las universidades más antiguas por crear organismos y estructuras para la investigación en la educación superior, la obra recorre las etapas más importantes de un itinerario donde poco a poco se han multiplicado las oportunidades para la discusión entre los estudiosos de toda la península. Desde los años noventa del siglo pasado dicha investigación sin lugar a dudas vivió un momento de especial florecimiento y renovación de cuyo trabajo se da ampliamente cuenta. Sobre la base de un considerable número de conferencias organizadas en varias ciudades italianas y de una cantidad notable de producciones científicas sobre el tema de la educación superior en Italia, se analizan los avances metodológicos más importantes y las principales perspectivas de investigación y se descubren nuevas e interesantes categorías hermenéuticas.Abstract: his paper intends to reconstruct a history of the Italian university historiography of the last hundred years. Since the early attempts of the early twentieth century started in some of the oldest universities to create organisms for research and structures in higher education, the work retraces the most important stages of a process in which have progressively offer many opportunities for discussion between experts in this sector of the entire Peninsula. Since the nineties of the last century these researches have undoubtedly experienced a moment of particular flowering and renewal whose work gives ample account. On the basis of a considerable number of conferences organized in various Italian cities and a considerable amount of scientific production on the theme of higher education in Italy, will therefore analyze the most significant methodological and the mostrecent perspectives of research and identify new and interesting categories hermeneutical.Palabras clave: historia de la universidad, educación superior, historiografía, bibliografía, Italia, siglos XX-XXI.Keywords: history of the university, higher education, historiography, bibliography, Italy, XX-XXI Centuries. 

History of Universities

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Original Research ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
History Of Universities ◽  
The University

This double issue of The History of Universities series contains the customary mix of learned texts and book review chapters which look further into the history of higher education. The volume is a combination of original research and invaluable reference material. The texts include those by George Rust, Benet Perera, John Warren, Andrew Reeves, and John W. Boyer. Topics include anatomy, religious education in thirteenth-century England, teaching and debating in medieval Paris, and the history of the University of Chicago and University of Oxford.

THE HISTORY OF SSEU AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS' FUTURE COMPETENCIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (195) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
A.P. Zhabin ◽  
◽  
N.F. Tagirova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Difficult Question ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
Changing World

SSEU turns 90 years old. In 2021. This is a good occasion not only for festive celebrations, this is also a reason to think about what the 90-year history of the university means to fulfill its main mission – to educate specialists with higher education who are able to successfully live and work in our rapidly changing world. How much knowledge of history a university graduate needs in general and what kind of history he needs-this difficult question is considered in this article in the context of the anniversary experienced by the university.

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