Open AccessMyth Conceptions of Academic Work
Author(s) -
Ian C. Johnston
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v21i2.183104
Subject(s) - mythology , workload , higher education , quality (philosophy) , work (physics) , sociology , mathematics education , pedagogy , psychology , political science , management , history , classics , epistemology , law , engineering , philosophy , mechanical engineering , economics
The creation of the new university-colleges in British Columbia provides an opportunity for a reassessment of the professor's workload. How relevant are research and publication to the quality of undergraduate instruction? Universities have traditionally maintained that such research and publication are essential to excellent teaching. However, research studies for many years have consistently revealed that such a claim has no apparent basis in fact, and a number of other commentators have complained about the deleterious effect of research and publication on instruction. Thus, in the new university-colleges the instructors' workloads should not be based upon the models common in universities.