Technology's Dilemma
Agricultural Colleges between Science and Practice in Germany, 1860-1934
In recent decades critics in several countries have complained that education in agriculture, engineering and medicine has drifted away from an earlier practical orientation, becoming increasingly irrelevant to actual needs. Since existing histories have surprisingly little to say about the causes of such 'academic drift', this book develops a model of institutional dynamics which explains why different institutions have evolved closer to the worlds of 'science' or 'practice'. 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 twenti…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-03910-299-0
- EAN: 9783039102990
- Produktnummer: 19725361
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.5 cm 408 g
- Gewicht: 408
Über den Autor
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).
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