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ISBN: | 0226753409 9780226753409 9780226753393 0226753395 9780226753386 0226753387 0226753387 0226753395
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Shils, Edward, 1910-1995. Calling of education. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1997 0226753387
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Standard no.: | ebc408496
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