Challenges and Options: The Academic Profession in Europe

Challenges and Options: The Academic Profession in Europe

This volume explores the various issues that have impact on the academic career of professionals in European Higher Education. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are now traversed by profound uncertainties and are more challenged than ever on quality issues, in its conceptual nature and in the ext...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Machado-Taylor, Maria de Lourdes (Editor), Soares, Virgílio Meira (Editor), Teichler, Ulrich (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series:The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective ; 18
Subjects:
Education.
Higher education.
Higher Education.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION (editors).Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Ulrich Teichler & Virgílio Meira Soares
  • PART I
  • 01. Teaching versus Research: The Vulnerable Balance. Ulrich Teichler
  • 02. A Bastion of Elitism or an Emerging Knowledge Proletariat? Some reflections about an human capital view of academic careers. Pedro Teixeira
  • 03. Academic Strategy in the Emerging University – A Transformational Perspective. Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor & Marvin Peterson
  • Part II
  • 04. Academic Job Satisfaction and Motivation: Perspectives from a nation-wide study in public higher education in Portugal Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor; V. Meira Soares; Rui Brites;J. Brites Ferreira; Minoo Farhangmehr; Odilia Gouveia.-PART III - COUNTRY CHAPTERS
  • AUSTRIA. Hans Pechar and Elke Park. 05. Academic Careers during the Massification of Austrian Higher EducationRadical change or persistence of long-standing traditions?
  • GERMANY
  • 06. Is There a Single Academic Profession in Germany? Ulrich Teichler, Ester Ava Höhle und Anna Katharina Jacob
  • ITALY
  • 07. The academic career in Italy. Massimiliano Vaira
  • SWITZERLAND
  • 08. The societal embeddedness of academic markets: From sex to gender in the Swiss context. Gaële Goastellec, Fabienne Crettaz von Roten
  • UNITED KINGDOM
  • 09. From Academic Profession to Higher Education Workforce: Academic Careers in the UK. John Brennan, Monica Franco and Rajani Naidoo
  • CONCLUSION (EDS). Ulrich Teichler; Maria de Lourdes Machado & V. Meira Soares.

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