Name: Firtname M. Lastname Course: Ph.D/MAE – Major Major
Proposed Title No. 1
Research Culture among Higher Education Institutions: An Assessment
Toits Continuing Journey
Reason(s)/Justification(s) in Choosing the Topic:
Teehankee, an Associate Professor and Chair in the Management and Organization Department of De La Salle Universitysaid that “research is a core activity of Higher Education Institution but notoriously neglected”. For research to be sustained, it must be part of the Higher Education way of institutional history and life, which is its culture. Since Research is the basis of how a university education works, a fundamental support of our teaching, and a basis of our support to our community, assessing the University’s Research Culture is very crucial. Being part of our University’s Research and Development Office as one of the members in our local research committee at the College of Information and Communications Technology, I became interested and concerned about Research Culture and other research activities. Cheetham (2007)said that research culture is the set of shared, taken-for- granted implicit assumptions that members of a Higher Education institution hold about research and that determines how they perceive, think about, and behave with respect to research activities. Doing and publishing needed scholarly research is not easy for faculty members which is one of the many reasons of not engaging into research activities. Time constraints, funding and competing demands like teaching, administrative work, consulting are also another factor. In addition, research culture is the structure that gives that behavior significanceand that allows us to understand and evaluate the research activity. In a university then, the culture is that structure, the cultural structurebased around the behavior of the faculty members, staffs and students that allows us totransfer the knowledge gained through this systematic process to ourstudents and to the community.We pass it on and other knowledge to our students in the context oftoday, along with the ability to analyze theevidence in the context of tomorrow. That structure is the cultural context that we must strive to build on – thecontinuous development. We cannot afford to stop researching, learningor we run the risk that our teaching will decrease, gradually in its relevance to tomorrow.
Expected Contribution to the Growth of Knowledge in ____________.
List of Related Literature and Related Studies Consulted:
Cantilado, NieloM., “An Assessment of the Research Culture of Divine Word
College of Calapan”, Thesis (M.A. in Educational Management), De La Salle University, 2005.
Mario A. Fetalver, Jr. “Research culture in State higher education institutions
(SHEIs) in Region IV : Proposed Research Program For Institutional Research Development / Thesis: (Ph.D. in Education major in educational management) - UST, 2002
Dr. Benito Teehankee, “Building Research Culture in Philippine Higher
Education: A Systems Action Research Approach”Associate Professor, Chair, Management and Organization Department, De La Salle University
OECD, Frascati Manual: Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys on Research
and Experimental Development, OECD: Paris.2002
Professor Andrew Cheetham, Growing a Research Culture, Address to
Academic Senate Friday 4th May 2007.
Submitted by: _______________________ Ms. Firtname M. Lastname (Contact No.: 0933-4835077)