Making Sense of Academic Life
Subtitle: Academics, Universities, and Change (SRHE)
Publisher: Society for Research Into Higher Education; Society for Research into Higher Education; Open University Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780335201853
Subjects: Higher & further education; College And University Curricula; College And University Faculty; Education / Teaching; Education; Educational Policy & Reform; Higher; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Aims and objectives; College teachers; College teaching; Education, Higher; Universities and colleges
First sentence: Academics' roles within the changing institutions of higher education - universities - cannot remain as they are, nor retreat to some former idealized times.
Description: "This book helps academics to become players rather than pawns in the process of change. To do so it raises issues that might inform thinking about - and therefore reactions to - academics' experiences of their changing roles in changing universities."--BOOK JACKET. "In universities, the tradition is to change. The author looks at the big picture of change in higher education, and in academics' work and work environments. The focus is on the emergent educational role of academics, and the relationship between academics and their institutions."--BOOK JACKET.