The University in Development

Case Studies of Use-Oriented Research 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.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

240mm x 168mm (Soft Cover)

Pages:

400

ISBN-13:

9780-7969-2347-9

Publish Year:

2011

Rights:

World Rights

Tables and figures
Preface
Note to the reader
Abbreviations and acronyms
PART 1
A global second academic transformation: in symbiosis with a third industrial revolution
Introduction to Part 1:
Investigating Western Cape university research groupings: how can they unlock knowledge for and with society?

CHAPTER 1: A post-1970s second academic transformation: questions and evidence
CHAPTER 2: Use-inspired basic research and the third mission: some early historical developments
CHAPTER 3: The spread of a second academic transformation in the last quarter of the twentieth century: a critical assessment

PART 2
Case studies at the universities of the Western Cape: investigation of eleven research groupings
Introduction to Part 2:

South African research and innovation: a short overview and some quantitative indicators

CHAPTER 4: Use-oriented research: Model types of research groupings in the universities
CHAPTER 5: Case studies of research groupings in between the traditional Model T and the new Models A, B and C

PART 3
Drawing together the threads from the eleven case studies

CHAPTER 6: Interpreting the data from ten use-oriented research groupings
CHAPTER 7: The idea of a second academic transformation: implications for new concepts and new policies

APPENDIX 1
Notes on research methodology employed in the study
APPENDIX 2
The case studies: model type, pseudonyms and mode of internal organisation of each case References

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 universitycivil society relations.