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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Changing Academic Profession
    sub title: Major Findings of a Comparative Survey
  name:
    name part: Teichler, Ulrich.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Arimoto, Akira.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Cummings, William K.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 260 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides an overview on the major findings of a questionnaire survey of academic profession in international perspective. More than 25,000 professors and junior staff at universities and other institutions of higher education at almost 20 countries from all over the world provide information on their working situation, their views and activities. The study “The Changing Academic Profession” is the second major study of its kind, and changes of views and activities are presented through a comparison of the findings with those of the earlier study undertaken in the early 1990s. Major themes are the academics’ perception of their societal and institutional environments, the views on the major tasks of teaching, research and services, their professional preferences and actual activities, their career, their perceived influence and their overall job satisfaction. Emphasis is placed on the influence of recent changes in higher education: the internationalisation and globalisation, the increasing expectation to provide evidence of the relevance of academic work, and finally the growing power of management at higher education institutions. Overall, the academics surveyed show that worldwide discourses and trends in higher education put their mark on the academic profession, but differences by country continue to be noteworthy. Academics consider themselves to be more strongly exposed to mechanism of regulations, incentives and sanctions as well as various assessments than in the past; yet their own freedom, and responsibilities and influence shape their identity more strongly and are reflected in widespread professional satisfaction.
  table of contents: About the Authors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Design and Methods of the Comparative Study -- 3. The Variety of Countries Participating in the Comparative Study -- 4. The Academic Career -- 5. Research and Teaching: The Changing Views and Activities of the Academic Profession -- 6. Faculty Perceptions of the Efficacy of Higher Educational Governance and Management -- Appendix -- The Changing Academic Profession: Questionnaire.
  note: by Ulrich Teichler, Akira Arimoto, William K. Cummings.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: International education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative education
  subject:
    topic: Higher education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: International and Comparative Education
  subject:
    topic: Higher Education
  classification: LB43
  classification: 370.116
  classification: 370.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective ; 1
  identifier: 9789400761551
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6155-1
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    record creation date: 130321
    record change date: 20151121004436.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-6155-1