How Scholars Trumped Teachers

How Scholars Trumped Teachers Change Without Reform in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780807738641
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Imprint: Teachers College Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 410g
Height: 156mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 22mm