Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education: Systems, Activities and Rewards (The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective Book 9)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education: An Overview....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 The Teaching and Research Nexus in the Third Wave Age....Pages 15-33 The Research Role in Comparative Perspective....Pages 35-44 Teaching and Curriculum Development Across Countries....Pages 45-57 Front Matter....Pages 59-59 Teaching and Research in Germany: The Notions of University Professors....Pages 61-87 Teaching and Research at Italian Universities: Continuities and Changes....Pages 89-112 The Changing Balance of Teaching and Research in the Dutch Binary Higher Education System....Pages 113-133 The Scholarly Question in Finland: To Teach or Not to Teach....Pages 135-152 Teaching and Research: Perspectives from Portugal....Pages 153-176 Teaching and Research of Korean Academics Across Career Stages....Pages 177-196 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 The Divergent Worlds of Teaching and Research Among Mexican Faculty: Tendencies and Implications....Pages 199-220 Research and Teaching in a Diverse Institutional Environment: Converging Values and Diverging Practices in Brazil....Pages 221-235 Current Challenges Facing the Academic Profession in Argentina: Tensions Between Teaching and Research....Pages 237-254 Teaching and Research in Malaysian Public Universities: Synergistic or Antagonistic?....Pages 255-276 From Teachers to Perfect Humboldtian Persons to Academic Superpersons: The Teaching and Research Activities of the South African Academic Profession....Pages 277-295 Front Matter....Pages 297-297 The Balance Between Teaching and Research in the Work Life of American Academics....Pages 299-318 Teaching and Research in English Higher Education: The Fragmentation, Diversification and Reorganisation of Academic Work, 1992–2007....Pages 319-334 Teaching, Research, and the Canadian Professoriate....Pages 335-356 Australian Academics, Teaching and Research: History, Vexed Issues and Potential Changes....Pages 357-377 Front Matter....Pages 379-379 Teaching and Research Across Higher Education Systems: Typology and Implications....Pages 381-394 Front Matter....Pages 379-379 Teaching and Research: A Vulnerable Linkage?....Pages 395-401 Back Matter....Pages 403-410