期刊名称：International Online Journal of Educational Sciences
电子版ISSN：1309-2707
出版年度：2014
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：57-63
出版社：IOJES
摘要：Research plays a crucial role in the development and dissemination of knowledge. Scholars as academicsshould conduct research, publish, and then convey their knowledge to students or apply what they have learned.Research Informed Teaching is not just about pedagogic research or research into higher education; it is about thecomplex interplay of the core activities of higher education linked by their mutual relationship to learning. There is,therefore, need to reforge the link between teaching–research. The aim of this study was to investigate factors thatmilitate against research output and publication in institutions of higher learning in South Africa as well as suggestsolutions with specific reference to one university. Using a desktop and content analysis approaches, the studyestablished that lack of funding, lack of interest, poor research skills and lack of time due to high teacher-studentratios as well as heavy lecturing obligations were some of the impediments to research output and publication. Thestudy, therefore, recommended that academics be given one day out for research per week, writing retreats to beconducted, mentoring of novice researchers, collaborative research, recognising excellence in teaching throughresearch led initiatives and establishment of in- house journals
