The Professoriate Profile of a Profession /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Welch, Anthony (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Higher Education Dynamics, 7
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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?.