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Transforming the future ETH Zurich and the Construction of Modern Switzerland 1855–2005

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

18.08.2010

Verlag

Chronos

Seitenzahl

472

Maße (L/B/H)

24.9/18.2/3.8 cm

Gewicht

1020 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-3-0340-1052-8

Beschreibung

Rezension

“A model for future studies on universities.”Klaus Hentschel in ISIS

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

18.08.2010

Verlag

Chronos

Seitenzahl

472

Maße (L/B/H)

24.9/18.2/3.8 cm

Gewicht

1020 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-3-0340-1052-8

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Chronos Verlag
Zeltweg 27
8032 Zürich
Schweiz
Email: info@chronos-verlag.ch
Url: www.chronos-verlag.ch
Telephone: +41 44 2654341

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  • Produktbild: Transforming the future
  • Introduction

    1. A fundamental debate: Anchoring the Swiss vision post-1848

    Between infrastructural policy and customs regulations
    Statistical excursions into the educational landscape
    Hunting for market niches
    The public policy debate free-for-all
    The parliamentary debate
    From Bern to Zurich: nailing it down

    2. Nation, profession, middle class: Educating nineteenth-century engineers

    Federal codes of behavior
    - Federal education policy
    - National visibility
    - On being a federal institution
    - A school for the nation

    Industrial standards
    - Technical training and industrial growth
    - Employment and educational credentials
    - Part university, part manufacturing plant
    - Toward an engineering curriculum
    - The laboratory as “idealized factory”
    - Launching into research
    - Collaborating with industry

    Cultural norms
    - Climbing the bourgeois career ladder
    - Toeing the line
    - Socialization
    - Gender and the polytechnic

    3. Setting a new course: The polytechnic becomes a “real” university after 1908

    The polytechnic in crisis
    Disentangling
    Reorganizing the polytechnic
    An unsuccessful debate over doctorates
    Acquiring the character of a real university
    The breakthrough of 1908
    From the “Polytechnic” to the “Federal Institute of Technology”
    Societal crisis and institutional change
    “Noblesse oblige!”

    4. Business, politics, and research: New alliances for a new century

    Technology boom and bust
    - Materialism and the decline of the West
    - A technocratic humanism

    The value of research
    - Meeting the promises
    - The world as a laboratory for agricultural policy
    - The “scientific transformation of the social” in the factory
    - The problem of basic research
    - Matching funds for applied research
    - The limits of the “national system of innovation”

    State intervention
    - Getting the economy going again: savings and stimulus
    - The ETH as an institute for “Geistige Landesverteidigung”
    - Investing in research for jobs
    - The science policy “arms race” post-1945
    - Dealing with the military

    Swissness and science
    - Arthur Rohn’s “Jewish problem”
    - Promoting an all-Swiss faculty post-1933
    - The United States as a new center of science
    - International research collaboration

    5. The social laboratory: Testing the bounds of higher education and politics post-1968

    “Educational requirements for the industrial world”?
    Systemic disruption
    The “student” element
    The campaign against the ETH law, 1969
    The revolt of the knowledge workers
    The end of the experimental phase

    6. A ll about flexibility: Managing science and technology in the post-industrial world

    Ready for anything
    - Flexibility as a prescription
    - The permanence of reform
    - The art of the project-centered approach
    - A new research commission
    - A project-based curriculum?
    - Databases and resources

    Betting on Internationalization
    - The universals of science
    - Appointments and university policy
    - Deindustrialization and relative backwardness
    - The globalization of science
    - European-American compatibilities

    Computerization strategies
    - Computers, centers, and interactivity
    - Differentiating services
    - Reintegration and networking
    - The WWW and customized IT

    Consultants, Restructuring, and Management
    - The Hayek report
    - The creative chaos of the matrix
    - Management everywhere
    - Autonomy as a management mandate

    The demise of disciplines