| How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Constancy and Change in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990 Contributor(s): Cuban, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807738646 ISBN-13: 9780807738641 Publisher: Teachers College Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: Examining a century of university history, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old question: What is more important, teaching or research? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher |
| Dewey: 378.199 |
| LCCN: 98-56523 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.66" W x 8.46" (0.91 lbs) 288 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |