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Global Tunes and National Melodies: Being Global and Sounding Local

In: The Globalization of Higher Education

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  • David Eastwood

    (University of Birmingham)

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Traditionally a university has been defined by, and indeed defined itself as, a place. Its architecture and its very physical conception embodied its form. In the medieval and early-modern periods, God and scholastically revealed knowledge was at its centre, so the chapel dominated. Then, following the example of the eighteenth-century German Aufklärung tradition, Thomas Jefferson boldly put the library at the centre of his University of Virginia in Charlottesville. With this a new symbolic notion of the university as a place was born, with secular knowledge, and increasingly contested knowledge, at the heart of the university.

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  • David Eastwood, 2012. "Global Tunes and National Melodies: Being Global and Sounding Local," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Christine T. Ennew & David Greenaway (ed.), The Globalization of Higher Education, chapter 3, pages 34-39, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-26505-0_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137265050_3
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