Burton R. Clark
Places of Inquiry
Research and Advanced Education in Modern Universities
$55.00, £37.95 hardcover
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July 1995, Available worldwide
July 1995, Available worldwide
A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiry explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship among research, teaching, and study. Based on cross-national research on the university systems of Germany, Britain, France, the United States, and Japan—which was first reported in the edited volume The Research Foundations of Graduate Education (California, 1993)—this book offers in-depth comparative analysis and draws provocative conclusions about the future of the research-teaching-study nexus.
With characteristic clarity and vision, Burton R. Clark identifies the main features and limitations of each national system: governmental and industrial dominance in Japan, for example, and England's collegiate form of university. He examines the forces drawing research, teaching, and study apart and those binding them together. Highlighting the fruitful integration of teaching and research in the American graduate school, Clark decries the widely held view that these are antithetical activities. Rather, he demonstrates that research provides a rich basis for instruction and learning. Universities, he maintains, are places of inquiry, and the future lies with institutions firmly grounded in this belief.
With characteristic clarity and vision, Burton R. Clark identifies the main features and limitations of each national system: governmental and industrial dominance in Japan, for example, and England's collegiate form of university. He examines the forces drawing research, teaching, and study apart and those binding them together. Highlighting the fruitful integration of teaching and research in the American graduate school, Clark decries the widely held view that these are antithetical activities. Rather, he demonstrates that research provides a rich basis for instruction and learning. Universities, he maintains, are places of inquiry, and the future lies with institutions firmly grounded in this belief.
"In this excellent and useful book, Burton Clark has brought together a group of colleagues to describe and discuss the research and graduate education in five countries: Germany, Britain, France, the United States, and Japan. . . . . This book will be invaluable to anyone interested in universities, research, and education. It provides a clear picture of how research and advanced study are thought about and carried out in five diverse countries, as well as a probing analysis of how things got that way, why they are changing, and what the challenges are in graduate education and research."—Academe
"An extraordinary achievement, which manages to break new ground empirically, theoretically, and normatively."—Roger Geiger, Pennsylvania State University
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