Higher Education Field-work: The Interdependence of Teaching, Research and Student Experience 1

Teaching and research are increasingly regarded as separate entities in higher education, to the extent that there is now a literature which explores the nature of the separation and the prospects for various forms of reintegration. However, as Rowland put it in a recent article, ‘…the category distinction between teaching and research may owe more to the demands for accountability than to logical or pedagogical differences between academic roles’ (Rowland, 1996, p. 13).