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; D e W eert and V an 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; L ocke .- 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 .