Invent ed : how an American tradition of innovation can transform college today / Caroline Field Levander.

Author/creator Levander, Caroline Field, 1964- author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]
Descriptionpages cm
Subjects
Education, Higher--United States.
Educational change--United States.
Educational innovations--United States.
Creative thinking--United States.
Inventions--United States.
Technological innovations--United States.
Enseignement--Réforme. --États-Unis.
Enseignement--Innovations. --États-Unis.
Inventions--États-Unis.
Innovations--États-Unis.

Contents Introduction: Future-Proofing American College Education -- Part I: Discovering an American Method of Invention: Men of Progress -- The Art and Science of Founding a New Republic -- The Inventor of an American Method of Invention: "The New Prometheus" -- "A New Era in America" -- Part II: Disciplines, Faculty, University: The Genius of the System -- Two Cultures -- Science as a National Concern -- America's Method of Invention and the American Research University -- The New Education in America: 1869-1909 -- The Emergence of Big Science: 1914-1970 -- The Market University Emerges: 1970-Onwards -- Part III: Necessity-The Mother of Invention: Reinventing Invention in America -- Creative as Well as Critical Thinking -- Fostering Innovation in the American University.
Abstract "A call for a renewed commitment to 'undisciplined' learning within American universities -- deep rigor within specialized fields coupled with an opening of disciplinary boundaries and assumptions"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Levander, Caroline Field, 1964- Invent ed Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025] 9780262383318
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