| Abstrakt: |
Originating from a concern on the cultural characteristics of academic activities, studies on functions of the culture of university academic disciplines have attracted more and more attention and accordingly varied theories have been proposed by the academia such as unitary function theory, triple function theory, quadruple function theory and quintuple function theory. However, problems do exist in that the major evidence for proposing functions of the culture of university academic disciplines calls for clarification, some of the functions require further identification and the interrelationships of the diverse functions need to be carefully tackled as well. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the related studies, this paper, with an aim to paving the way for further studies on the culture and functions of university academic disciplines, comes up with the new quintuple functions--boundary, agglomeration, stipulation, knowledge production and talent cultivation, among which talent cultivation is the core function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
