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The nature of research : inquiry in academic contexts / Angela Brew.

By: Brew, Angela, 1943- [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Routledge, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Description: 205 pages : 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415214070 (paperback).Subject(s): Research | Universities and colleges -- ResearchDDC classification: 001.4
Contents:
What is research? -- Research and scholarship -- Following rules -- Knowledge -- Problems and questions -- New knowing -- Research as a commodity -- Research and learning -- Research and teaching -- Research as discourse -- Research and the future.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 001.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) T62451 Available CIT Module EDUC 9049 - Supplementary reading. 00218526
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Increasingly, new academics are entering higher education without conventional research training and without a clear idea of what research actually involves. This is particularly true of academics who enter from having spent time in a profession including many in the newer disciplines. In addition, institutions of higher education which do not have a tradition of research are increasingly competing for research funding.
The Nature of Research looks at this background and discusses what is wrong with academic research and discusses what is wrong with academic research today, what needs to change for it to survive, how to allow new kinds of research to flourish, directions for future action and how academic research can teach us to live in today's complex and uncertain society.
The aim of the book, then, is to provide a stimulus to thinking about the nature and role of research with a view to considering what might be appropriate in the next century. Since research is so central to university life, looking at research will tell us much about what the university of the future might be like.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is research? -- Research and scholarship -- Following rules -- Knowledge -- Problems and questions -- New knowing -- Research as a commodity -- Research and learning -- Research and teaching -- Research as discourse -- Research and the future.

CIT Module EDUC 9049 - Supplementary reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. vii)
  • 1 Introduction (p. 1)
  • Part I The practice of research (p. 15)
  • 2 What is research? (p. 17)
  • 3 Research and scholarship (p. 30)
  • 4 Following rules (p. 48)
  • 5 Knowledge (p. 63)
  • 6 Problems and questions (p. 76)
  • 7 New knowing (p. 91)
  • Part II Research in context (p. 107)
  • 8 Research as a commodity (p. 109)
  • 9 Research and learning (p. 128)
  • 10 Research and teaching (p. 142)
  • 11 Research as discourse (p. 155)
  • 12 Research and the future (p. 172)
  • References (p. 188)
  • Index (p. 196)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Angela Brew works in the Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is President of the Higher Education Research and Development Society Australasia (HERDSA)