The founders and the idea of a national university. Constituting the American mind.

Autor/in	Thomas, George
Titel	The founders and the idea of a national university. Constituting the American mind.
Quelle	New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (2014)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Zusatzinformation	Titelbild
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	9781107083431; 9781107443884
Schlagwörter	USA; Education, Higher; Philosophy; United States; Aims and objectives; Founding Fathers of the United States; Education and state; Constitutional history; Geschichte; Democracy and education; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century; Bildungsgeschichte + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Higher education; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Universität; Philosophie; USA; Aim; Aims; Objectives; Zweck; Ziel; Ziele; Zielsetzung; Founding of a state; United States; History; Staatsgründung; Geschichte; Education; State; Bildung; Erziehung; Staat; Verfassungsgeschichte; Democracy; Demokratie; 19th century; Geschichtsdarstellung; 19. Jahrhundert
Abstract	Introduction; 1. The national-university vision and American constitutionalism; 2. The national university and constitutional limits; 3. The national university and state institutions; 4. Constituting the university; 5. Education, the national university, and constituting national identity; 6. The civic dimensions of American constitutionalism; Conclusion: the Constitution and the American mind.. "This book examines the ideas of the Founders with regard to establishing a national university and what those ideas say about their understanding of America. It offers the first study on the idea of a national university and how the Founders understood it as an important feature in an educational system that would sustain the American experiment in democracy. Their ideas about education suggest that shaping the American mind is essential to the success of the Constitution and that this is something that future generations would need to continue to do"--Provided by publisher.; "Constituting the American Mind is about early efforts to establish a national university and what those efforts say about the nature and logic of American Constitutionalism. This book offers the first in depth study of the efforts to establish a national university from a constitutional perspective. While mostly noted in passing, the national university was put forward by every president from Washington to John Quincy Adams as a necessary supplement to the formal institutions of government; it would help constitute the American mind in a manner that carried forward the ideas the constitution rested on including, for example, the separation of the "civic" from the "theological.""--Provided by publisher.
Erfasst von	Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Update	2014/3/08