The University in Development

Informationen zum Autor David Cooper 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 The Skewed Revolution: Trends in South African Higher Education 1988-1998. 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis A global second academic transformation: in symbiosis with a third industrial revolution. Case studies at the universities of the Western Cape: investigation of eleven research groupings. Drawing together the threads from the eleven case studies.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

A global second academic transformation: in symbiosis with a third industrial revolution. Case studies at the universities of the Western Cape: investigation of eleven research groupings. Drawing together the threads from the eleven case studies.