The Relevance of Academic Work in Comparative Perspective
This book is the first of two volumes that look at the changed landscape of higher education and the academic profession. This volume focuses on academic work, examining the significant changes that have taken place in the backgrounds, specialisations, ex
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William K. Cummings Ulrich Teichler Editors
The Relevance of Academic Work in Comparative Perspective
The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective 13 Series Editors William K. Cummings, The George Washington University, Washington, USA Akira Arimoto, Kurashiki Sakuyo University, Kurashiki City, Okayama, Japan
Editorial Board Jürgen Enders, University of Bath, Bath, UK Amy Metcalfe, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Christine Musselin, CSO Research Interests Higher Education and Research, Paris, France Rui Santiago, University of Aveiro, Portugal Simon Schwartzman, Institute for Studies and Labour and Society, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ulrich Teichler, University of Kassel, Germany Charles Wohluter, Northwest University, South Africa
Scope of the series As the landscape of higher education has in recent years undergone significant changes, so correspondingly have the backgrounds, specializations, expectations and work roles of academic staff. The Academy is expected to be more professional in teaching, more productive in research and more entrepreneurial in everything. Some of the changes involved have raised questions about the attractiveness of an academic career for today’s graduates. At the same time, knowledge has come to be identified as the most vital resource of contemporary societies. The Changing Academy series examines the nature and extent of the changes experienced by the academic profession in recent years. It explores both the reasons for and the consequences of these changes. It considers the implications of the changes for the attractiveness of the academic profession as a career and for the ability of the academic community to contribute to the further development of knowledge societies and the attainment of national goals. It makes comparisons on these matters between different national higher education systems, institutional types, disciplines and generations of academics, drawing initially on available data-sets and qualitative research studies with special emphasis on the recent twenty nation survey of the Changing Academic Profession. Among the themes featured will be: 1. Relevance of the Academy’s Work 2. Internationalization of the Academy 3. Current Governance and Management, particularly as perceived by the Academy 4. Commitment of the Academy The audience includes researchers in higher education, sociology of education and political science studies; university managers and administrators; national and institutional policymakers; officials and staff at governments and organizations, e.g. the World Bank.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8668
William K. Cummings • Ulrich Teichler Editors
The Relevance of Academic Work in Comparative Perspective
Editors William K. Cummings Graduate School of Education and HD George Washington University Washington, DC, USA
Ulrich Teichler INCHER-Kassel University of Kassel Kassel, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-11766-9 ISBN 978-3-319-11767-6 (eBook) DO
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