The University in Development

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7969-2347-9
Verlag: HSRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Paperback, Gewicht: 600 g

A seminal study, <em>The University in Development</em> 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.<br><br> Emerging from an extended longitudinal study, <em>The University in Development</em> 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'. <br><br> <em>The University in Development</em> will be of interest to scholars in the fields of higher education, innovation studies and the sociology of knowledge, and is of critical relevance to policy-makers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, David

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>David Cooper</strong> is Head of Department and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town. He has a BScElecEng (UCT) and a PhD in Sociology (Birmingham, UK). He was principal author of the book <em>The Skewed Revolution: Trends in South African Higher Education 1988-1998</em>. During 2009 and 2010 he was a Fulbright New Century Scholar under the theme 'The university as innovation driver and knowledge centre', focusing his research on university–civil society relations.