The Professoriate Profile of a Profession /

What does it mean to be an academic in the twenty first century? Clearly, there is no one answer to this question, as the diversity evident in the following chapters reveals. Elite research universities often tend to join with others of their kind, so that a professor from an elite US institution ma...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Welch, Anthony (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edición:1st ed. 2005.
Colección:Higher Education Dynamics, 7
Temas:
Education, Higher.
International education .
Comparative education.
Educational sociology.
Education and state.
Higher Education.
International and Comparative Education.
Sociology of Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Challenge and Change: The Academic Profession in Uncertain Times
  • Globalisation's Impact on the Professoriate in Anglo-American Universities
  • Academics and Institutional Governance
  • Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States
  • From Peregrinatio Academica to Global Academic: The Internationalisation of the Profession
  • Academics' View of Teaching Staff Mobility
  • How Satisfied Are Women and Men with Their Academic Work?
  • Academic Work Satisfaction in the Wake of Institutional Reforms in Australia
  • Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective
  • Improve Teaching Methods or Perish
  • The Chinese Professoriate in Comparative Perspective
  • The Academic Profession in Hong Kong
  • Conclusion: New Millennium, New Milieu?.

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