Abstract
This article sets out the context and rationale of a project on which the author is currently engaged in collaboration with Roy Lowe. It records a network of American, European and British scholars, including Lowe, who in the last four decades of the twentieth century developed research on the history of universities. At a personal level it recalls the entry into this research activity of one Japanese historian of higher education, and his encounter with Roy Lowe. The historiography and the relevance of Lowe’s contributions are recounted from a Japanese perspective, leading to a subsequent sharing of research questions and the launch of a project on which both individuals are currently engaged.
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1Sir James Mountford, Keele: An Historical Critique (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972).
2H. J. Perkin, New Universities in the United Kingdom (Paris: OECD, 1969), 60.
3Roy Lowe, ‘The Expansion of Higher Education in England’, in The Transformation of Higher Learning, 1860–1930: Expansion, Diversification, Social Opening, and Professionalization in England, Germany, Russia, and the United States, ed. Konrad Jarausch (Stuttgart: Klett Cotta, 1982; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983); Roy Lowe, ‘Structural Change in English Higher Education’, in The Rise of the Modern Educational System: Structural Change and Social Reproduction, 1870–1920, ed. Detlef Muller, Fritz Ringer and Brian Simon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
4OECD, Reviews of National Policy for Education (Japan) (Paris: OECD), 1971.
5Roy Lowe, ‘The Changing Role of the Academic Journal: The Coverage of Higher Education in History of Education as a Case Study, 1972–2011’, History of Education 41, no. 1 (2012): 103–15.
6Eric Ashby (in association with Mary Anderson), Universities: British, Indian, African: A Study in the Ecology of Higher Education (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966).
7Walter Rüegg, ed., Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945), vol. 3 of A History of the University in Europe (4 vols) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992–2011).
8Roy Lowe, ed., The History of Higher Education: Major Themes in Education, 5 vols (London: Routledge, 2009).
9David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, 2nd ed. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011) (first pub. 2004).