Technology’s Dilemma
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03910-299-0 (ISBN)
The model is based on a study of German agricultural colleges and the study surveys the evolution of the agricultural curriculum during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it swung back and forth between the poles of science and practice. It makes a comparative analysis of five colleges in the decades around 1900, some of them more science-oriented and others more practical, and follows the gradual transformation over half a century of two colleges in Bavaria which had to compete for recognition and funding. The wider relevance of these findings is also explored, not only for the history of agricultural education in the United States and Britain but also for engineering, medicine and management education, past and present.
The Author: Jonathan Harwood was born in the United States and studied biology and sociology at Wesleyan (Connecticut), Harvard and Bristol Universities. He is the author of The Race Concept (1975, with Michael Banton), Styles of Scientific Thought: the German Genetics Community, 1900-1933 (1993) and a number of articles on the history of German science, biology, and plant-breeding. He is currently Reader in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Manchester (UK).
Contents: Academic drift in higher technical education - Educational institutions within 'academic' and 'politico-economic fields' - The evolution of the agricultural curriculum, 1800-1934 - Science and practice at Berlin, Bonn, Breslau, Halle, and Hohenheim around 1900 - Bavaria's colleges maneuver for position, 1872-1934.
«... the book offers a great deal for scholars interested in the history of agriculture, and the practical sciences more generally, as well as to those interested in educational policy.» (Suman Seth, Agricultural History)
«His treatment is a welcome addition to the history of agricultural educators and institutions. Harwood does a remarkable job of extracting a great deal of archival material over an impressive historical span.» (Sara Tjossem, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences)
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.3.2005 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 410 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Schlagworte | 1860 • 1934 • academic drift • Agricultural • agricultural curriculum • Bavaria's Agricultural Institution • Bavaria' s Agricultural Institution • Bavaria's Agricultural Institution • Bavarias Agricultural Institution • Between • Colleges • Deutschland • Dilemma • education /agriculture • German agricultural college • Germany • Geschichte 1860-1934 • Hardcover, Softcover / Sachbücher/Geschichte/Sonstiges • harwood • HC/Sachbücher/Geschichte/Sonstiges • history /agriculture • Jonathan • Landwirtschaftliches Studium • Practice • professional education • Science • Technology • Technology's • Technology’s |
| ISBN-10 | 3-03910-299-0 / 3039102990 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-03910-299-0 / 9783039102990 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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