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ERIC Number: EJ191412
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1978
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The Protestant Ethic and Higher Education in America.
Ditz, Gerhard W.
Oxford Review of Education, v4 n2 p161-71 1978, 78
Argues that Calvinism has been a major influence on higher education in America. General headings: The Inflation of Higher Education; From Pluralist Elitism to Mass Egalitarianism; The End of Calvinist Discipline; Calvinism and Academic Freedom; Calvinism and Vocational Education; and The Bureaucratization of Higher Education. (DB)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Problems, Higher Education, Mass Instruction, Religious Factors, Socioeconomic Influences, Values
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Language: English
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Identifiers: United States