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The Professoriate. Profile of a Profession.
Anthony . Ed(S): Welch
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Description for The Professoriate. Profile of a Profession.
Paperback. Provides insight into the academic profession. This book acts as a guide to understanding the forms and directions of change in the professoriate, as well as some of the continuities. Editor(s): Welch, Anthony. Series: Higher Education Dynamics. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 337.
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 may well undertake a Japanese sabbatical (if at all) at the University of Tokyo, a UK semester at Oxford or Cambridge, or an Australian semester at the University of Sydney, or perhaps Melbourne. At each, they can expect to have at their disposal well-stocked libraries, replete with requisite ... Read more
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 may well undertake a Japanese sabbatical (if at all) at the University of Tokyo, a UK semester at Oxford or Cambridge, or an Australian semester at the University of Sydney, or perhaps Melbourne. At each, they can expect to have at their disposal well-stocked libraries, replete with requisite ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
Series
Higher Education Dynamics
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402061783
SKU
V9781402061783
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