Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education

• Introduction: Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education: An Overview; Cummings and Shin.- PART I. Theoretical Basis.- 2. The Teaching and Research Nexus in the Third Wave Age; Arimoto.- 3. The Research Role in Comparative Perspective; Cummings.- 4. Teaching and Curriculum Development across Countries; Huang.- PART II. Research Focused Systems.- 5. Teaching and Research in Germany: The Notions of University Professors; Teichler.- 6. Teaching and Research at Italian Universities: Continuities and Changes; Rostan.- 7. The Changing Balance of Teaching and Research in the Dutch Binary Higher Education System; De Weert and Van der Kaap.- 8. The Scholarly Question in Finland: to Teach or not to Teach; Aarrevaara, Dobson and Postareff.- 9. Teaching and Research: perspectives from Portugal; Santiago, Sousa, Carvalho, Marchado-Taylor and Dias.- 10. Teaching and Research of Korean Academics across Career Stages; Shin, Jung and Kim.- PART III. Teaching Focused Systems.- 11. The Divergent Worlds of Teaching and Research among Mexican Faculty: Tendencies and Implications; Galaz-Fontes, Martinez-Stack, Estevez-Nenninger, Padilla-Gonzalez, Gil-Anton, Sevilla-Garcia and Arcos-Vega.- 12. Research and Teaching in a Diverse Institutional Environment: Converging Values and Diverging Practices in Brazil; Schwartzman and Balbachevsky.- 13. Current Challenges Facing the Academic Profession in Argentina: Tensions between Teaching and Research; Leal and Marquina.- 14. Teaching and Research in Malaysian Public Universities: Synergistic or Antagonistic?; Azman, Pang, Sirat and Yunus.- 15. From Teachers to Perfect Humboldtian Persons to Academic Superpersons: The Teaching and Research Activities of the South African Academic Profession; Wolhuter.- PART IV. Teaching and Research Balanced Systems.- 16. The Balance between Teaching and Research in the Work Life of American Academics; Finkelstein.- 17. Teaching and Research in English Higher Education: The Fragmentation, Diversification and Reorganization of Academic Work, 1992-2007; Locke.- 18. Teaching, Research and the Canadian Professoriate; Jones, Gopaul, Weinrib, Metcalfe, Fisher, Gingras and Rubenson.- 19. Australian Academics, Teaching and Research: History, Vexed issues and Potential Changes; Bentley, Goedegebuure and Meek.- Concluding Observations.- 20. Teaching and Research across Higher Education Systems: A Typology and Implications; Shin and Cummings.- 21. Teaching and Research: A Vulnerable Linkage?; Teichler and Arimoto.

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