The university in development
Subtitle: case studies of use-oriented research
By: David Cooper
Publisher: HSRC Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780796923479; 9780796923486; 9780796923493
Subjects: Higher Education; Sociology of Knowledge; Educational change; Education; Education and state; Universities and colleges; Research
Description: "A seminal study, The University in Development explores how the university is indeed "in development": pursuing a new "third" mission of external societal development (alongside its two existing missions of teaching and research), and experiencing a major internal revolution as this impacts on its structural organisation. Already prevalent in many institutions internationally, this third academic mission has begun to pose troubling challenges to existing academic research cultures and systems in South Africa. Emerging from an extended longitudinal study, The University in Development provides a powerful analysis of the complex nexus of transformation occurring between universities and the rapidly changing global society of which they form a part. Embedded within the book is a central theoretical claim: that driving this new international transformation within universities is a global post-1970s new capitalist industrial revolution, with economies seeking out use-inspired basic research at universities in order to survive and grow within the competitive international market. The analysis thus provides new understandings of current concepts of "globalisation", "use-oriented" research, "knowledge society and economy", and "national system of innovation""--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-378) and index.