The Professoriate
Profile of a Profession
Samenvatting
This indispensable guide provides a unique insight into the academic profession at a time of major change. It is organized both thematically and geographically with attention given to regions rarely covered, such as China and Latin America.
For the first time, here is a book that critically assesses the condition of the professoriate at a time of momentous change when the profession is fracturing along fault lines.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
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: The ERASMUS.
Experience Revisited. How Satisfied Are Women and Men with their Academic Work?: The impact of gender, discipline, area and academic rank in Australia.
Academic Work Satisfaction in the Wake of Institutional Reforms in Australia.
Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective.
Improve Teaching Methods or Perish? Issues Confronting the Academic Profession in Latin America.
The Chinese Professoriate in Comparative Perspective: Self-perceptions, Academic Life, Gender Differences and Internal Differentiation.
The Academic Profession in Hong Kong. Conclusion: New Millennium, New Milieu?
Index.