The Promotion of "Civility" and the Quest for the Creation of a "City of Peace": The Beginnings of Trinity College, Dublin and of Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.

Boran, Elizabethanne; Robinson-Hammerstein, Helga

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ERIC Number: EJ610619

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Publication Date: 1998

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The Promotion of "Civility" and the Quest for the Creation of a "City of Peace": The Beginnings of Trinity College, Dublin and of Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.

Boran, Elizabethanne; Robinson-Hammerstein, Helga

Paedagogica Historica, v34 n2 p479-505 1998

Investigates the founding of two universities, Trinity College Dublin and Harvard College, as instances of "transfer of knowledge" and were seen as ideal replicas of the original model, or Cambridge University. Reports that universities were tools of the "civilizing" process in Ireland and the Massachusetts Bay colony. (CMK)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Exchange, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Religious Factors, Role of Education, Social Change, Social Influences, Universities

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Ireland; United Kingdom (England)

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