Developing a Research Culture in Higher Education; Educator's Speak

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THE Solution: Develop Research Culture

Culture is defined as the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought characteristics of a community or population. In academe, there is - or at least there ought to be - such a thing as a research culture.

A research culture may be defined as a tradition of scholarly activities related to the production of new knowledge. It does not just happen. In many academic institutions in the country, it is still to be developed as indicated by the absence of scholarly publications among their faculty, so Balacuit of Mindanao State University (MSU) tells us in 1999.

Developing a culture needs a philosophy. A premier university in Pampanga has this philosophy: Research in higher …