The Changing Face of Academic Life Analytical and Comparative Perspectives [Hardcover]

Bringing together an international line-up of contributors, this?collection?provides a transnational examination of?recent developments within the academic profession in the light of changes to higher education systems,?globalization and marketization.Introduction;? J.Enders & E.de Weert PART I: MODERNISATION PROCESSES AND THE ACADEMIC PROFESSION The Academic Estate Revisited: Reflections on Academia's Rapid Progress from the Capitoline Hill to the Tarpeian Rock; G.Neave New Public Management and the Academic Profession: The Rationalization of Academic Work Revisited;? J.Enders, H.de Boer ?& L.Leiayte Markets and New Modes of Knowledge Production;? P.Scott Policy Change and the Challenge to Academic Identities;? M.Henkel The Academic Professions in the Global Era;? S.Marginson PART II: ACADEMIC PROFESSION AND THE ACADEMIC WORKPLACE Profession, Market and Organization: How is Academia Regulated?;? C.Musselin The Organised Contradictions of Teaching and Research: Reshaping the Profession;? E.de Weert Doctoral Education: Pressures for Change and Modernization;? B.Kehm Work Allocation and Rewards in Shaping Academic Work;? J.Fairweather PART III: CHANGING EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION Employment Relations in Europe: a Comparative and Critical Review;? D.Farnham Changing Employment Relationships in North America: Academic Work in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; M.J.Finkelstein, J.F.Galaz-Fontes & ?A.Scott Metcalfe PART IV: CONCLUSION Towards a T-Shaped Profession: Academic Work and Career in the Knowledge Society;? J.Enders ?& E.de Weert

'Jurgen Enders and Egbert de Weert have brought together an enormously authoritative group of scholars to discuss the changing position of the academic profession.This book will be a major reference point for many years to come.' -Michael Shattock, Institute of Education, London.

'Enders and de Weert move beyond national studies to comparative studies written by leading scholarslc)