Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education [electronic resource] : Global Perspectives /
Yudkevich, Maria.author.
Altbach, Philip G.author.
Rumbley, Laura E.author.
Academic inbreeding - appointing one's own graduates for academic positions - is a controversial but surprisingly common practice internationally. This book is the first comparative analysis of the phenomenon - the causes, implications, and future of inbreeding.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments: The Inbreeding Project; Notes on Contributors; 1 Academic Inbreeding: Local Challenge, Global Problem; 2 Academic Inbreeding: State of the Literature; 3 Academic Inbreeding in the Argentine University: A Systemic and Organizational Analysis; 4 Faculty Inbreeding in China: Status, Causes, and Results; 5 Inbreeding in Japanese Higher Education: Inching Toward Openness in a Globalized Context; 6 Academic Immobility and Inbreeding in Russian Universities; 7 Slovenia: The Slow Decline of Academic Inbreeding
8 Academic Inbreeding: The South African Case9 Academic Inbreeding in Spanish Universities: Perverse Effects in a Global Context; 10 Academic Inbreeding in Ukraine; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Academic inbreeding - appointing one's own graduates for academic positions - is a controversial but surprisingly common practice internationally. This book is the first comparative analysis of the phenomenon - the causes, implications, and future of inbreeding.
Higher education.
Education and state.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Educational sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Higher Education.
Education Policy.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.