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Justin J. W. Powell, David P. Baker, Frank Fernandez - Century of Science, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Century of Science

The Global Triumph of the Research University

Av Justin J. W. Powell, David P. Baker, Frank Fernandez

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Winner of the 2017 Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education (CIHE/ASHE)Winner of the 2018 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence: Education TheoryIn The Century of Science, a multicultural, international team of authors examine the global rise of scholarly research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and health (STEM+) fields. This insightful text provides historical and sociological understandings of the ways that higher education has become an institution that, more than ever before, shapes science and society. Case studies, supported by the most historically and spatially extensive database on STEM+ publications available, of selected countries in Europe, North America, East Asia, and the Middle East, emphasize recurring themes: the institutionalization and differentiation of higher education systems to the proliferation of university-based scientific research fostered by research policies that support continued university expansion leading to the knowledge society. Growing worldwide, research universities appear to be the most legitimate sites for knowledge production. The chapters offer new insights into how countries develop the university-based knowledge thought fundamental to meeting social needs and economic demands. Despite repeated warnings that universities would lose in relevance to other organizational forms in the production of knowledge, these findings demonstrate incontrovertibly that universities have become more—not less—important actors in the world of knowledge. The past hundred years have seen the worldwide triumph of the research university.
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Justin J. W. Powell is Professor of Sociology ofEducation at the University of Luxembourg. His comparative institutionalanalyses of education systems chart persistence and change in inclusive andspecial education, in higher education and vocational training, and in educationalgovernance and research policy. His co-authored book Comparing SpecialEducation: Origins to Contemporary Paradoxes received the 2012 Outstanding BookAward (Contemporary Issues in Curriculum category), of the American EducationalResearch Association. David P. Baker is Professor of Sociology,Education, and Demography at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. He writesabout the effects of education on cognition, health, and society. His 2014book, The Schooled Society: The Educational Transformation of Global Culturewon the American Educational Research Association’s 2015 Outstanding BookAward. Frank Fernandez is Assistant Professor at theUniversity of Houston, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education from ThePennsylvania State University. He researches educational policy issues,including topics related to comparative or international studies of educationand skills, access and equity for underserved students, as well as doctoraleducation and the future of the Professoriate.

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The Committee was impressed by the longitudinal scope of the study, the rigorous application of econometric methods, and the attention to both intra-national and cross-national analyses in the volume. The combination of these elements makes the volume truly innovative, and holds great potential for future research.

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