The Professoriate

by Welch, Anthony R.

• ISBN13: 9781402033827
• ISBN10: 1402033826
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This volume provides a unique insight into the academic profession at a time of major change. It is organized both thematically and geographically with attention given to regions rarely covered, such as China and Latin America. For the first time, here is a book that critically assesses the condition of the professoriate at a time of momentous change. The profession is fracturing along fault lines associated with gender, tenure, age, rank and system and institutional status. Globalization is also re-shaping the world of higher education, including academic work practices. This book draws upon a major international study of the academic profession, as well as upon new data. Both thematic treatments and case studies of the academic profession in various parts of the world present challenging insights into the tensions in the profession, as well as some of the aspects that, despite all the changes, bind academics in very different institutions and systems, together. Researchers, planners, students and national and international agencies concerned with the changing world of higher education, will find this book an indispensable guide to understanding the forms and directions of change in the professoriate, as well as some of the continuities.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Anthony Welch
Challenge and Change: The Academic Profession in Uncertain Times	1	(20)
Anthony Welch
Globalisation's Impact on the Professoriate in Anglo-American Universities	21	(14)
Janice Currie
Academics and Institutional Governance	35	(24)
Peter Geurts
Peter Maassen
Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States	59	(12)
Takekazu Ehara
From Peregrinatio Academica to Global Academic: The Internationalisation of the Profession	71	(26)
Anthony Welch
Academics' View of Teaching Staff Mobility: The Erasmus Experience Revisited	97	(16)
Jurgen Enders
Ulrich Teichler
How Satisfied Are Women and Men with their Academic Work?: The Impact of Gender, Discipline, Area and Academic rank in Australia	113	(20)
Laurel Bornholt
Millicent Poole
John Hattie
Academic Work Satisfaction in the Wake of Institutional Reforms in Australia	133	(14)
Craig McInnis
Malcolm Anderson
Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective	147	(20)
Philip Altbach
Improve Teaching Methods or Perish. Issues Confronting the Academic Profession in Latin America	167	(12)
Ernesto Schiefelbein
Paulina Schiefelbein
The Chinese Professoriate in Comparative Perspective: Self-perceptions, Academic Life, Gender Differences and Internal Differentiation	179	(14)
Rui Yang
The Academic Profession in Hong Kong	193	(12)
Gerard Postiglione
Conclusion: New Millennium, New Milieu?	205	(4)
Anthony Welch
List of Contributors	209	(10)
Index	219

Excerpts

"For the first time, here is a book that critically assesses the condition of the professoriate at a time of momentous change. The profession is fracturing along fault lines associated with gender, tenure, age, rank and system and institutional status. Globalization is also re-shaping the world of higher education, including academic work practices." "This book draws upon a major international study of the academic profession, as well as upon new data. Both thematic treatments and case studies of the academic profession in various parts of the world present challenging insights into the tensions in the profession, as well as some of the aspects that, despite all the changes, bind academics in very different institutions and systems, together. Researchers, planners, students and national and international agencies concerned with the changing world of higher education, will find this book an indispensable guide to understanding the forms and directions of change in the professoriate, as well as some of the continuities."--BOOK JACKET.