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Understanding higher education : an introduction for parents, staff, employers, and students

Title
Understanding higher education : an introduction for parents, staff, employers, and students / Donald Bligh, Harold Thomas & Ian McNay ; [foreword by Baroness Blackstone].
Author
Bligh, Donald A.
Publication
Exeter, England : Intellect, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • McNay, Ian.
  • Thomas, H. G. (Harold G.)
Description
x, 150 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
A guide for the different groups who need to understand the consequences of the developing higher education system. This text considers both the historical development of the system as well as the scope and nature of its institutional manifestation.
Subject
  • Education, Higher > Great Britain
  • Education, Higher > Great Britain > History
  • Higher education and state > Great Britain
  • College students > Great Britain
  • Public Policy
  • College students
  • Education, Higher
  • Higher education and state
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The struggle for meaning -- Part One: A pocketful of magic -- Life divined from the inside -- "The fisherman and the Jinny": fairy tale compared to fable -- Fairy tale versus myth: optimism versus pessimism -- "The three little pigs": Pleasure principle versus reality principle -- The child's need for magic -- Vicarious satisfaction versus conscious recognition -- The importance of externalization: fantasy figures and events -- Transformations: The fantasy of the wicked stepmother -- Bringing order into chaos -- "The queen bee": achieving integration -- "Brother and sister": unifying our dual nature -- "Sindbad the seaman and Sindbad the porter ": fancy versus reality -- The frame story of "Thousand and One Nights" -- Tales of two brothers -- "The three languages": building integration -- "The three feathers": the youngest child as simpleton -- Oedipal conflicts and resolutions: the knight in shining armor and the damsel in distress -- Fear of fantasy: Why were fairy tales outlawed? -- Transcending infancy with the help of fantasy -- "The goose girl": achieving autonomy -- Fantasy, recovery, escape, and consolation -- On the telling of fairy stories -- Part Two: In fairy land -- "Hansel and Gretel" -- "Little Red Riding Hood" -- "Jack and the Beanstalk" -- The jealous queen in "Snow White" and the myth of Oedipus -- "Snow White" -- "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" -- "The Sleeping Beauty" -- "Cinderella" -- The animal-groom cycle of fairy tales.
ISBN
  • 1871516749
  • 9781871516746
LCCN
00502057
OCLC
  • ocm41659214
  • 41659214
  • SCSB-1227347
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library