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9780807738641

How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Constancy and Change in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807738641

  • ISBN10:

    0807738646

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-02-01
  • Publisher: Teachers College Pr
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List Price: $29.95

Summary

Examining a century of university history, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old question: What is more important, teaching or research? Using two departments (history and medicine) at Stanford University as a case study, Cuban shows how universities have organizationally and politically subordinated teaching to research for over one hundred years. He explains how university reforms, decade after decade, not only failed to dislodge the primacy of research but actually served to strengthen it. He examines the academic work of research and teaching to determine how each has influenced university structures and processes, including curricular reform. Can the dilemma of scholars vs. teachers ever be fully reconciled? This fascinating historical journey is a must read for all university administrators, faculty, researchers, and anyone concerned with educational reform.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(12)
How the Invention of the University-College Led to a Century of Dilemmas and a Tradition of Reform at Stanford
13(48)
How Universities Tame Reform to Preserve the Research Imperative: Or Why There Is Change Without Reform
61(30)
Scholar-Teachers in the Stanford History Department, 1891-1990
91(42)
A Sturdy Way of Preparing Physicians: The School of Medicine, 1908-1990
133(32)
How Research Trumped Teaching in History and Medicine
165(26)
Scholars or Teachers: How Much Change Is Possible?
191(16)
Notes 207(44)
References 251(14)
Index 265(15)
About the Author 280

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