How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Constancy and Change in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990

by Cuban and Larry Cuban

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Examining a century of university history, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old question: What is more important, teaching or research? Using two departments (history and medicine) at Stanford University as a case study, Cuban shows how universities have organizationally and politically subordinated teaching to research for over one hundred years. He explains how university reforms, decade after decade, not only failed to dislodge the primacy of research...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807738646

ISBN13:9780807738641

Release Date:March 1999

Publisher:Teachers College Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

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