Places of Inquiry: Research and Advanced Education in Modern Universities

Burton R. Clark

University of California Press, Jul 11, 1995 - Education - 308 pages

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.

Contents

• The Federal Republic of Germany: 19
• INSTITUTIONAL DEFINITION OF THE HUMBOLDTIAN ATTITUDE: 21
• TWENTIETHCENTURY TRAVAIL: 37
• THE INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY A SUMMATION: 50
• 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 A SUMMATION: 84
• France Subordination of the University: 89
• EVOLUTION OF A NATIONAL SERVICE: 91
• THE MODERN COMPLEX OF UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH CENTERS: 101
• THE ACADEMY UNIVERSITY A SUMMATION: 112
• 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 A SUMMATION: 155
• Japan Displacement to Industry: 159
• THE BUREAUCRATIC FUNDING BASE: 167
• DISCIPLINARY DIFFERENCES: 171
• THE APPLIED UNIVERSITY A SUMMATION: 179
• Forces of Fragmentation: 189
• RESEARCH DRIFT: 193
• TEACHING DRIFT: 197
• GOVERNMENTAL AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS: 202
• NEGATION OF THE NEXUS: 209
• 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
• 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

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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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Places of Inquiry: Research and Advanced Education in Modern Universities
• Author: Burton R. Clark
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: University of California Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0520915100, 9780520915107
• Length: 308 pages
• Subjects: Education / General