ISBN:
9789400768307
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXII, 410 p. 42 illus, online resource)
Series Statement:
The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective 9
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Teaching and research in contemporary higher education
Keywords:
Education, Higher
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Education
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Education
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Education, Higher
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Universities and colleges
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Research institutes
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Universities and colleges
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Professional staff
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Academic freedom
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Learning and scholarship
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Hochschule
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Lehre
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Forschung
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Online-Ressource
Abstract:
This book discusses how teaching and research have been weighted differently in academia in 18 countries and one region, Hong Kong SAR, based on an international comparative study entitled the Changing Academic Profession (CAP). It addresses these issues using empirical evidence, the CAP data. Specifically, the focus is on how teaching and research are defined in each higher education system, how teaching and research are preferred and conducted by academics, and how academics are rewarded by their institution. Since the establishment of Berlin University in 1810, there has been controversy on teaching and research as the primary functions of universities and academics. The controversy increased when Johns Hopkins University was established in 1876 with only graduate programs, and more recently with the release of the Carnegie Foundation report Scholarship Reconsidered by Ernest L. Boyer in 1990. Since the publication of Scholarship Reconsidered in 1990, higher education scholars and policymakers began to pay attention to the details of teaching and research activities, a kind of ‘black box’ because only individual academics know how they conduct teaching and research in their own contexts
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Contents; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education: An Overview; 1.1 International Differences in the Teaching-Research Balance; 1.2 The Knowledge Explosion and the Diversification of Organizational Models; 1.2.1 The Global Stratification of Academic Systems; 1.2.2 Expansion and Diversification of Purpose; 1.3 The Inevitable Tensions Between Academic and Organizational Priorities; 1.3.1 Patterns of System Coordination; 1.3.2 The Emergence of Organizations to Protect the Academic Profession; 1.4 Organization of the Book
Description / Table of Contents:
ReferencesPart I: Theoretical Basis; Chapter 2: The Teaching and Research Nexus in the Third Wave Age; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Necessity of the Teaching and Research Nexus; 2.2.1 Effects of the Knowledge Society; 2.2.2 Logic of Academic Discipline; 2.2.3 Mechanism of Academic Work and the Teaching and Learning Nexus; 2.3 R-T-S Nexus in the Age of Third Wave; 2.3.1 Problems of Third Wave Age; 2.3.2 Logic of R-T-S Nexus as a Mission of the Academic Profession; 2.4 Conflicts Between Ideal and Reality: Carnegie and CAP Surveys; 2.4.1 1992 Survey; 2.4.2 2007 Survey; 2.4.3 Research Orientation
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2.5 Perspective of the Twenty-First Century: Integration Is an Inevitable Problem to Be Dealt With2.5.1 Uncertainty as well as an Unpredictable Future; 2.5.2 Characteristics of the Academic Organization and the Mission of Academic Profession; 2.5.3 Division of Labor Between University and Nonuniversity Institutions; 2.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3: The Research Role in Comparative Perspective; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historical Overview of Academic Research; 3.3 Perceptions of Research; 3.4 Massification and Diversification; 3.4.1 Vertical Differentiation of Institutional Types
Description / Table of Contents:
3.4.2 "Horizontal" Differentiation of Academic Fields3.5 Diversity of Disciplinary Research Styles; 3.6 Funding of Research; 3.7 STEM Research Outputs; 3.8 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Teaching and Curriculum Development Across Countries; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Research Framework and Method; 4.2.1 A Conceptual Framework; 4.2.2 Method; 4.2.3 Limitation; 4.3 Results; 4.4 Discussion; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Part II: Research Focused Systems; Chapter 5: Teaching and Research in Germany: The Notions of University Professors; 5.1 The Functions of Academics: Varying by Institutional Types
Description / Table of Contents:
5.2 The Analysis Envisaged5.3 Higher Education in Germany: Traditions and Recent Changes; 5.4 The Balance of Teaching and Research: Preferences and Actual Work Time; 5.5 Select Aspects of Teaching; 5.6 Select Aspects of Research; 5.7 Links Between Teaching and Research; 5.8 Interindividual Comparison: Impact of Teaching and Research Approaches; 5.9 Concluding Observations; References; Chapter 6: Teaching and Research at Italian Universities: Continuities and Changes; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Historical Development of Italian University
Description / Table of Contents:
6.3 Reshaping the Academic Profession: The University Reform of 1980
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education: An Overview; Cummings and ShinPART I. Theoretical Basis -- 2. The Teaching and Research Nexus in the Third Wave Age; Arimoto -- 3. The Research Role in Comparative Perspective; Cummings -- 4. Teaching and Curriculum Development across Countries; Huang -- PART II. Research Focused Systems -- 5. Teaching and Research in Germany: The Notions of University Professors; Teichler -- 6. Teaching and Research at Italian Universities: Continuities and Changes; Rostan -- 7. The Changing Balance of Teaching and Research in the Dutch Binary Higher Education System; De Weert and Van der Kaap -- 8. The Scholarly Question in Finland: to Teach or not to Teach; Aarrevaara, Dobson and Postareff -- 9. Teaching and Research: perspectives from Portugal; Santiago, Sousa, Carvalho, Marchado-Taylor and Dias -- 10. Teaching and Research of Korean Academics across Career Stages; Shin, Jung and Kim -- PART III. Teaching Focused Systems -- 11. The Divergent Worlds of Teaching and Research among Mexican Faculty: Tendencies and Implications; Galaz-Fontes, Martinez-Stack, Estevez-Nenninger, Padilla-Gonzalez, Gil-Anton, Sevilla-Garcia and Arcos-Vega -- 12. Research and Teaching in a Diverse Institutional Environment: Converging Values and Diverging Practices in Brazil; Schwartzman and Balbachevsky -- 13. Current Challenges Facing the Academic Profession in Argentina: Tensions between Teaching and Research; Leal and Marquina -- 14. Teaching and Research in Malaysian Public Universities: Synergistic or Antagonistic?; Azman, Pang, Sirat and Yunus -- 15. From Teachers to Perfect Humboldtian Persons to Academic Superpersons: The Teaching and Research Activities of the South African Academic Profession; Wolhuter -- PART IV. Teaching and Research Balanced Systems -- 16. The Balance between Teaching and Research in the Work Life of American Academics; Finkelstein -- 17. Teaching and Research in English Higher Education: The Fragmentation, Diversification and Reorganization of Academic Work, 1992-2007; Locke -- 18. Teaching, Research and the Canadian Professoriate; Jones, Gopaul, Weinrib, Metcalfe, Fisher, Gingras and Rubenson -- 19. Australian Academics, Teaching and Research: History, Vexed issues and Potential Changes; Bentley, Goedegebuure and Meek -- Concluding Observations -- 20. Teaching and Research across Higher Education Systems: A Typology and Implications; Shin and Cummings -- 21. Teaching and Research: A Vulnerable Linkage?; Teichler and Arimoto.
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-6830-7
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