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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 Theory
In 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.
Contents
The Worldwide Triumph of the Research University and Globalizing Science Higher Education Expansion and The Growth of Science: The Institutionalization of Higher Education Systems in Seven Countries, 1945-2015
The European Center of Science Productivity: Research Universities and Institutes in France, Germany, And The United Kingdom
Science Production in The United States: An Unexpected Synergy Between Mass Higher Education and The Super Research University
Changing Science Production in Japan: The Expansion of Competitive Funds, Reduction of Block Grants, and Unsung Heroes
The Rise of Higher Education and Science in China
Science Production in Taiwanese Universities, 1980-2011
The Growth of Higher Education and Science Production in South Korea Since 1945
"A Fever of Research": Scientific Journal Article Production and The Emergence of a National Research System in Qatar, 1980-2011
Stem+ Productivity, Development, and Wealth, 1900-2012
