Places of Inquiry: Research and Advanced Education in Modern Universities / Edition 1

by Burton R. Clark

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520087620
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	07/11/1995
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Burton R. Clark, Allan M. Carter Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, is coeditor of Encyclopedia of Higher Education (1992) and author of The Academic Life: Small Worlds, Different Worlds (1987), which won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award.

Table of Contents

	Tables	xi
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	1
Part 1	Distinctive National Configurations of Advanced Education and Research Organization
1.	The Federal Republic of Germany Vicissitudes of the Humboldtian Project	19
	Institutional Definition of the Humboldtian Attitude	21
	Twentieth-Century Travail	37
	The Institute University	50
2.	Great Britain: Small Worlds, Collegiate Worlds	56
	The Exclusive Base	57
	Nationalization of Tradition	61
	Research Training in the British Context	78
	The Collegiate University	84
3.	France: Subordination of the University	89
	Evolution of a National Service	91
	The Modern Complex of Universities and Research Centers	101
	The Academy University	112
4.	The United States: Competitive Graduate Schools	116
	Emergence of the Vertical University	118
	Private Patrons and Government Funding	124
	Institutional Embodiment of Research	131
	Institutional Differentiation of Graduate Education	139
	The Graduate Department University	155
5.	Japan: Displacement to Industry	159
	The Constraint of Graduate Education	159
	The Bureaucratic Funding Base	167
	Disciplinary Differences	171
	The Applied University	179
Part 2	The Research-Teaching-Study Nexus
6.	Forces of Fragmentation	189
	Research Drift	193
	Teaching Drift	197
	Governmental and Industrial Interests	202
	Negation of the Nexus	209
7.	Conditions of Integration	211
	Enabling Conditions in the National System	212
	Formative Conditions in the University	224
	Enacting Conditions in the Basic Unit	232
	Affirmation of the Nexus	237
8.	Places of Inquiry	240
	Centrality of Inquiry in the University Complex	241
	The Inevitability of Complexity and Contradiction	245
	The Essential Compatibility of Research and Teaching	249
	Notes	253
	Bibliography	267
	Index	281