The calling of education : the academic ethic and other essays on higher education /

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Author / Creator:Shils, Edward, 1910-1995.
Imprint:Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, ©1997.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11107685
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ISBN:0226753409
9780226753409
9780226753393
0226753395
9780226753386
0226753387
0226753387
0226753395
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Throughout his long and prolific career, Edward Shils brought an extraordinary knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher education. The Calling of Education features Shils's most illuminating and incisive writing on this topic from the last twenty-five years of his life. The first essay, "The Academic Ethic," articulates the unique ethical demands of the academic profession and directs special attention to the integration of teaching and research. Other pieces, including Shils's renowned Jefferson lectures, focus on perennial issues in higher learning: the meanin.
Other form:Print version: Shils, Edward, 1910-1995. Calling of education. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1997 0226753387
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