Social Purposes in Search of Higher Education, or Higher Education in Search of Social Purposes?.

Weinstein, W. L.

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Publication Date: 1975

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Social Purposes in Search of Higher Education, or Higher Education in Search of Social Purposes?

Weinstein, W. L.

Higher Education, 4, 4, 409-28, Nov 75

Discusses relationship between social purposes and higher education's intrinsic values examining six specific purposes that have emerged in the transition from elite to mass higher education and concluding that society and higher education may have to continue in active tension if academic ideals are to be self-perpetuating. (JT)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Objectives, Equal Education, Higher Education, Institutional Role, Moral Development, Social Influences, Social Planning, Social Responsibility, Vocational Education

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