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Peer reviewedSlaughter, Sheila; Silva, Edward T. – Journal of Higher Education, 1983
Higher education's contemporary emergence as a scholarly specialty is compared with the development of some other specialities--economics, political science, sociology. An interpretation of how fields become disciplines is offered and some parallels between the social sciences at the turn of the century and higher education today are explored.…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
Peer reviewedNeave, Guy – Journal of Higher Education, 1985
In Western Europe, the advent of higher education as a self-sustaining field of research began two decades ago. The place of higher education research in academia, government policy formulation, and the type of inquiry undertaken in Sweden in comparison with counterparts in France and Britain are examined. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administrators, Comparative Analysis, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
