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University Dynamics and European IntegrationA Rule-governed Community of Scholars: The Humboldt Vision in the History of the European University

University Dynamics and European Integration: A Rule-governed Community of Scholars: The Humboldt... CHAPTER 3 A RULE-GOVERNED COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS: THE HUMBOLDT VISION IN THE HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Thorsten Nybom INTRODUCTION Whenever rapid, fundamental, and seemingly irreversible changes occur, or at least seem to occur, in politics, art, technology, or in different types of infrastructures and institutional formations, we are almost instantly inclined to start talking about “x-revolutions,” “x-quantum leaps,” etc. By doing so we are not only indicating that in “our age” we are experiencing an undisputed and measurable quantitative change in our daily private and professional lives, we are also convinced that the impacts of these processes will be extremely rapid, far-reaching, and indeed unique in a qualitative historical sense. Thus, before discussing the question of continuity and change in European higher education and research and in particular the role of the so-called Humboldtian model, it is only befitting to once again make a humble reminder of the fact that concepts, such as “revolution” and “evolution,” “change” and “continuity,” are notoriously tricky to use in an actual analysis and explanation of historical events, actors and processes, and, hence, they are also hotly and almost incessantly debated among scholars. Historians have, for instance, not reached even a moderate or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

University Dynamics and European IntegrationA Rule-governed Community of Scholars: The Humboldt Vision in the History of the European University

Part of the Higher Education Dynamics Book Series (volume 19)
Editors: Maassen, Peter; Olsen, Johan P.
Nybom, Thorsten
University Dynamics and European Integration — Jan 1, 2007
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer 2007
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978-1-4020-5970-4
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55 –80
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-5971-1_3
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CHAPTER 3 A RULE-GOVERNED COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS: THE HUMBOLDT VISION IN THE HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Thorsten Nybom INTRODUCTION Whenever rapid, fundamental, and seemingly irreversible changes occur, or at least seem to occur, in politics, art, technology, or in different types of infrastructures and institutional formations, we are almost instantly inclined to start talking about “x-revolutions,” “x-quantum leaps,” etc. By doing so we are not only indicating that in “our age” we are experiencing an undisputed and measurable quantitative change in our daily private and professional lives, we are also convinced that the impacts of these processes will be extremely rapid, far-reaching, and indeed unique in a qualitative historical sense. Thus, before discussing the question of continuity and change in European higher education and research and in particular the role of the so-called Humboldtian model, it is only befitting to once again make a humble reminder of the fact that concepts, such as “revolution” and “evolution,” “change” and “continuity,” are notoriously tricky to use in an actual analysis and explanation of historical events, actors and processes, and, hence, they are also hotly and almost incessantly debated among scholars. Historians have, for instance, not reached even a moderate or

Published: Jan 1, 2007

Keywords: High Education; Nineteenth Century; High Education System; High Education Policy; Institutional Order

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