Open AccessMyths Revisited
Author(s) -
Gareth O’Neill
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v23i1.183153
Subject(s) - champion , mythology , spark (programming language) , set (abstract data type) , publish or perish , higher education , face (sociological concept) , sociology , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , publishing , social science , political science , history , law , classics , computer science , programming language
Do universities reward teaching? Do universities reward publication? Which is rewarded more: teaching or publication? Do research and publication undermine good teaching? These questions, perhaps more than any others, spark emotional outbursts among academics. Many are quick to champion a view, but their arguments often fly in the face of hard data. What then do the data show? Are they exhaustive? Are they uniform? One set of answers is found in Professor Johnston's article entitled, "Myth Conceptions of Academic Work" which appeared in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education, Vol. XXI-2, 1991. Another set is found in this article. The reader is left to draw his or her own conclusion.