The changing face of academic life
Subtitle: analytical and comparative perspectives
By: edited by Juergen Enders, Egbert de Weert.
Contributors: Enders, Jürgen.; Weert, Egbert de, 1948-
Series: Issues in higher education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780230521032
Subjects: College teachers -- Professional relationships -- Cross-cultural studies; College teaching -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Description: Based on new comparative and analytical frameworks, this book provides a comprehensive and transnational account of major structural developments that are changing the traditional features of the academic profession. It examines the wider changes in higher education such as new governance models, massification and marketization, identity formation, internationalization and globalization, as well as new forms of knowledge production and their effects on academic life. This collection analyses the effects these changes will have on academic careers, and on employment relationships and academic labour markets in Europe and America. The volume includes contributions by many of today's leading scholars within the international higher education research community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.