The Study On Clark Kerr's Ideas Of Higher Education

Clark Kerr was a towering thinker, practitioner and labor economist in America in 20th century. Under the complicated social circumstances in America after World War II, Kerr's farsighted and innovative ideas of Higher Education and his prominent leadership in the practice of Higher Education led to immeasurable contributions to the reformation and development of Higher Education in America and other countries in the world.Kerr's abundant and profound ideas of Higher Education are mainly as follows: First, The Idea of Multiversity: It radically denies the visions of the traditional university and describes the modern university into a new institution composed of many communities with many purposes and many functions. Second, The Idea of the Purposes of Higher Education: It holds that Higher Education should closely follow the society and fully show its functions of promoting the development of individuals, the prosperity of knowledge and the advance of the society. Third, The Idea of Functions of Higher Education: It tells that Higher Education should perform more complicated functions and more directly serve the purposes of Higher Education. Fourth, The Idea of the Connections between the University and the Environment: It holds that the modern university will not be an "Independent Institution", it should set up many new connections with the environment. Fifth, The Idea of Internationalization of Higher Education: It says that the Internationalization of Higher Education is an irreversible historic swim during the development of the times, and the course of Internationalization should be actively promoted on the base of Nationalization.Kerr's ideas of Higher Education almost answered the whole things happened in the field of Higher Education in America after World War II, they have far-reaching historical significance, and they effectively directed the development and reformation of Higher Education in America or around the world.