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Tiêu đề

Hutchins's university of utopia: Institutional independence, academic freedom, and radical restructuring

Tác giả

Hoff P.S.

Năm xuất bản

2009

Source title

Innovative Higher Education

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1007/s10755-009-9112-5

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-70349479550&doi=10.1007%2fs10755-009-9112-5&partnerID=40&md5=5b672fba69a818a73f118cd689fef711

Tóm tắt

In a crisis-plagued world looking to higher education for knowledge, wisdom, and solutions, higher education itself is stumbling. Its transformational thinking has frozen up like an overstressed computer program; and we need, in effect, to "push the reset button." In 1953, the renowned and controversial president of the University of Chicago, Robert M. Hutchins, authored a refreshing and provocative work, The University of Utopia, containing ideas that still challenge today's paradigms. He argued for institutional independence over "accountability," "outcomes," and "stakeholders." He indicted educational evils he called "industrialization," "specialization," "philosophical diversity," and "social and political conformity" and suggested ways to defeat them. Although his 56-year-old thoughts on reconceptualizing the multiversity are not a panacea, they could help higher education make a fresh start. This essay reintroduces the modern reader to Hutchins's iconoclastic and stimulating ideas in the hope of restarting the stalled agenda for educational reform. © Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2009.

Từ khóa

Academic freedom; Academic purpose; Curriculum; Higher education and society; Higher education reform; Institutional autonomy; Leadership accountability; Liberal learning; Professional education; Research; Robert M. Hutchins; Specialization; Stakeholders; Strategic change; University finance

Tài liệu tham khảo

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