The University of the Future: The Yugoslav Experience

by Tanja Lorkovic, Miroslav Pecujlic

Overview

The University of the Future offers the American reader an insider's view of higher education in a socialist country, as well as the opportunity to see differences and similarities in higher education in capitalist and socialist societies. Part I of the book is devoted to a philosophical criticism of bureaucratic tendencies in capitalist society and a discussion of how such failings have affected higher education. Also included here is the author's argument for radical solutions that could be implemented through education. Part II contains an analysis of the present state of education in Yugoslavia and a comparison of education in Yugoslavia with that in the developed and the developing world. Specific concrete steps to achieve the university of the future are presented which stress the need for education to develop closer ties to mainstream economic and social activities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313254307
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/16/1987
Series:	Contributions to the Study of Education , #22
Pages:	211
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

TANJA LORKOVIC is Head of the Cataloging Department in the University Libraries of the University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

Foreword by John W. Ryan
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Socio-Economic Basis of Education
The University and the New Reality
The Crisis of the Traditional University
Socialism and Education
Yugoslav Society and the University
Part II. Possible Directions, Reforms, and Alternatives
The Development of Education and Social Needs
The University, Science, and the Development of Society
The Economic Basis of Education
Self-Management and the New Monopolies
A Great Pedagogical Reform
The University and the Future
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index