The Professoriate (eBook, PDF)

Profile of a Profession
Redaktion: Welch, Anthony

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402033834
• Artikelnr.: 37337598

Autorenporträt

Anthony Welch, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

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?.