Places of Inquiry

by Clark, Burton R.

• ISBN13: 9780520087620
• ISBN10: 0520087623
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr on Demand

Summary

A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiryexplores 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.

Table of Contents

Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Distinctive National Configurations of Advanced Education and Research Organization
The Federal Republic of Germany Vicissitudes of the Humboldtian Project	p. 19
Institutional Definition of the Humboldtian Attitude	p. 21
Twentieth-Century Travail	p. 37
The Institute University	p. 50
Great Britain: Small Worlds, Collegiate Worlds	p. 56
The Exclusive Base	p. 57
Nationalization of Tradition	p. 61
Research Training in the British Context	p. 78
The Collegiate University	p. 84
France: Subordination of the University	p. 89
Evolution of a National Service	p. 91
The Modern Complex of Universities and Research Centers	p. 101
The Academy University	p. 112
The United States: Competitive Graduate Schools	p. 116
Emergence of the Vertical University	p. 118
Private Patrons and Government Funding	p. 124
Institutional Embodiment of Research	p. 131
Institutional Differentiation of Graduate Education	p. 139
The Graduate Department University	p. 155
Japan: Displacement to Industry	p. 159
The Constraint of Graduate Education	p. 159
The Bureaucratic Funding Base	p. 167
Disciplinary Differences	p. 171
The Applied University	p. 179
The Research-Teaching-Study Nexus
Forces of Fragmentation	p. 189
Research Drift	p. 193
Teaching Drift	p. 197
Governmental and Industrial Interests	p. 202
Negation of the Nexus	p. 209
Conditions of Integration	p. 211
Enabling Conditions in the National System	p. 212
Formative Conditions in the University	p. 224
Enacting Conditions in the Basic Unit	p. 232
Affirmation of the Nexus	p. 237
Places of Inquiry	p. 240
Centrality of Inquiry in the University Complex	p. 241
The Inevitability of Complexity and Contradiction	p. 245
The Essential Compatibility of Research and Teaching	p. 249
Notes	p. 253
Bibliography	p. 267
Index	p. 281
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.