The Changing Academic Profession in Japan

The Changing Academic Profession in Japan

This volume provides an empirical and qualitative analysis of the nature and extent of the Japanese academic profession, with a special focus on the changes that occurred in the period between 1992 and 2007. Based on responses to two comprehensive surveys administered to faculty samples with a simil...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Arimoto, Akira (Editor), Cummings, William K. (Editor), Huang, Futao (Editor), Shin, Jung Cheol (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective ; 11
Subjects:
Education.
International education.
Comparative education.
Educational policy.
ducation and state.
Higher education.
International and Comparative Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Higher Education.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Prologue:  The Changing Academic Profession in Japan: its past and present. Akira Arimoto
  • 1. Higher Education Policy and Academic Profession. Yoshimasa Kano
  • 2. Mobility. Atsunori Yamanoi
  • 3. Academic Funding and Allocation of Research Money. Akihiro Asonuma
  • 4. Changes in University Teachers’ View towards Students: Impact of Universalization. Naoyuki Ogata.­- 5. Gender Bias: what has changed for Female Academics? Naomi Kimoto
  • 6. Governance, Administration and Management. Masashi Fujimura
  • 7. Labor Conditions. Hirotaka Nanbu and Tomomi Amano. 8. Working Time and Personal Strain. Yusuke Hasegawa
  •  9. Research Productivity: Tsukasa Daizen
  • 10. Teaching and Research in the Academic Profession: Nexus and Conflict. Hideto Fukudome
  • 11. Academic Profession and Evaluation.  Masataka Murasawa
  • 12. Internationalization.  Futao Huang
  •  13. Higher Education and Society. Hirotoshi Yamasaki. 14. The Academic Profession: A Comparison between Japan and Germany. Ulrich Teichler
  • 15. The Invisible Academy: A U.S. Perspective on The Japanese Academic Profession. William K. Cummings
  • 16. Similar but Different Worlds: A Korean Perspective on The Japanese Academic Profession. Jung C. Shin
  • Epilogue Perspective of the Academic Profession. Akira Arimoto.

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