Author: Edward FiddesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Chapters in the History of Owens College and of Manchester University, 1851-1914
Author: Edward FiddesA History of the University of Manchester, 1951-73
Author: Brian PullanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719056703
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This history of the University of Manchester takes the story from the centenary of Owens College in 1951, to the introduction of the new Charter in 1973. It provides a frank and entertaining account of the University's attempts to meet the government's demands for the rapid expansion of higher education in the 1950s and 1960s, looking at the University's ambitious building program, controversial attempts to reform its constitution, and its accommodation to students' and younger academics' questioning of hierarchical principles and paternalistic attitudes. Distributed by Palgrave. Pullan taught modern history at the University of Manchester from 1973 to 1998. c. Book News Inc.
The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain
Author: Martin DauntonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263266
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means and by what criteria. During the Victorian period, the structure of knowledge took on a new and recognizably modern form, and the disciplines we now take for granted took shape. The ways in which knowledge was tested also took on a new form, with the rise of written examinations. New institutions of knowledge were created: museums were important at the start of the period, universities had become prominent by the end. Victorians needed to make sense of the sheer scale of new information, to popularize it, and at the same time to exclude ignorance and error - a role carried out by encyclopaedias and popular publications. By studying the Victorian organization of knowledge in its institutional, social, and intellectual settings, these essays contribute to our wider consideration of the complex and much debated concept of knowledge.
The Owens College, Manchester (founded 1851); a Brief History of the College and Description of Its Various Departments
Author: Philip HartogPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019894668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This pamphlet provides a concise history of the Owens College of Manchester, founded in 1851. The text briefly describes the various departments of the college, including chemistry, mathematics, and classics. This book is an interesting artifact of educational history and provides insights into the development of higher education in England. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Portrait of a University, 1851-1951
Author: Henry Buckley CharltonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Science in Victorian Manchester
Author: William T. GoldenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351491881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The evolution of an urban scientific community under the pressures of conceptual and social change is the main focus of this book. Manchester was Victorian Britain's leading industrial city. In order to describe and analyze the transformation of science in the eighteenth century, Robert Kargon closely examines Manchester through successive stages. In so doing, he traces the evolution of science from an activity pursued by gentlemen-amateurs to a highly specialized profession.At the end of this process, the author shows, a major trans formation in our understanding of the nature of science can be discerned: scientific knowledge, it was realized, could be produced. Science was no longer regarded primarily as the di vine design rendered into laws of nature, but rather as a method, or instrument, to be applied to novel areas of human endeavor. Science had become on the one hand enterprise, and on the other expertise. In each chapter, Kargon relates the changing conception of science and its social role to the birth, growth, and character of the city's scientific institutions.The contours of the scientific community-its interests, concerns, and approaches to what it came to see as critical problem---were shaped by its civic environment. Its character, in turn, responded to the development of the disciplines represented within it. As the sciences increased in specialization and complexity during the course of the nineteenth century, they placed new stress upon the community, affecting the composition of its membership and the nature of its leading institutions. The scientific frontier reacted upon Manchester just as Manchester acted upon it. Now available in paperback, this classic work in history includes a new introduction by the author.
Science in Victorian Manchester
Author: Robert Hugh KargonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007019
Category : Manchester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In History and in Education
Author: Richard AldrichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317949293
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This tribute from historian and educationists to the work and influence of Peter Gordon, Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education in London, is grouped round the central theme of the educational history of the 19th and 20th centuries.
John Owens, Manchester Merchant
Author: Brian William ClappPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Merchants
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Universities in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Michael SandersonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315443872
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This title, first published in 1975, analyses the ways in which developments in Victorian universities have shaped both the structure and the assumptions of British higher education in the twentieth century. No period of British higher education has been more full of change nor so rooted in fundamental debate than the second half of the nineteenth century. Its lasting impact makes it crucial for an understanding both of this period of Victorian social history and of the contemporary system of higher education in Britain. This title will be of interest to students of history and education.