Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education Systems, Activities and Rewards

Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education Systems, Activities and Rewards / edited by Jung Cheol Shin, Akira Arimoto, William K. Cummings, Ulrich Teichler.

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. Speci...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Shin, Jung Cheol (Editor), Arimoto, Akira (Editor), Cummings, William K. (Editor), Teichler, Ulrich (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective ; 9
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
International education .
Comparative education.
Higher education.
Educational sociology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education: An Overview; Cummings and Shin
  • PART 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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