The Century of Science: The Global Triumph of the Research University Vol: 33

Justin J. W. Powell
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

David P. Baker
Pennsylvania State University, USA

Frank Fernandez
Pennsylvania State University, USA


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Paperback
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9781838679323
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Emerald Publishing Limited
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312 pages - 152 x 229mm
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International Perspectives on Education and Society
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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.

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 ChinaScience 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
Justin J. W. Powell is Professor of Sociology ofEducation at the University of Luxembourg. His comparative institutionalanalyses of education systems chart persistence and change in inclusive andspecial education, in higher education and vocational training, and in educationalgovernance and research policy. His co-authored book Comparing SpecialEducation: Origins to Contemporary Paradoxes received the 2012 Outstanding BookAward (Contemporary Issues in Curriculum category), of the American EducationalResearch Association. 
David P. Baker is Professor of Sociology,Education, and Demography at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. He writesabout the effects of education on cognition, health, and society. His 2014book, The Schooled Society: The Educational Transformation of Global Culturewon the American Educational Research Association’s 2015 Outstanding BookAward. 
Frank Fernandez is Assistant Professor at theUniversity of Houston, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education from ThePennsylvania State University. He researches educational policy issues,including topics related to comparative or international studies of educationand skills, access and equity for underserved students, as well as doctoraleducation and the future of the Professoriate.

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