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The Order of Learning : Essays on the Contemporary University by Edward Shils is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
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The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central role in society, and that distractions, such as pressures from government, disinterest of students and faculty in education, and involvement of institutions of higher learning in social questions, h
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Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- Edward Shils
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, 35 Berrue Circle, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8042; 732-445-2280; fax: 732-445-3138 ($34.95)
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781351291705
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Education, Social Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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