Academic Work and institutional Culture: Constructing Knowledge

1 January 1991

journal article
research article
Published by Project MUSE in The Review of Higher Education

Vol. 14 (2) , 199-216
https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.1991.0024

Abstract

By analyzing three ethnographic case studies, the author highlights how two colleges and one university conceive of and construct knowledge. In contrast to previous writers who assert that disciplinary activity is the agent of knowledge production, Tierney argues that institutional contexts powerfully influence knowledge production and that knowledge is a cultural construction. The paper’s conclusion discusses the implications of a culturally constructed view of knowledge for researchers and administrators.

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