The professoriate in the age of globalization / edited by Nelly P. Stromquist.
"Globalization has profoundly affected the university. It has shaped what is being learned, the use of technologies in the classroom, the connectivity between professors and institutions nationally and worldwide, the conditions of academic work, the relationship between knowledge production and...
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| Language: | English |
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Rotterdam :
Sense Publishers,
[2007]
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| Series: | Global perspectives on higher education ;
vol. 8. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Phillip G. Altbach & Patti McGill Peterson
- Introduction. The academic profession in the face of changing societal and institutional expectations / Nelly P. Stromquist
- I. Segmentation or diversification? Conditions of academic work in Mexico / Manuel Gil-Antón
- II. The changing patterns of the Brazilian academic profession in the age of globalization / Elizabeth Balbachevsky
- III. Continuity and change in a private university in Peru / Nelly P. Stromquist
- IV. The professoriate in Denmark in the age of globalization / Carol Collatrella
- V. Emerging inequality in the academic profession in Russia / Anna Smolentseva
- VI. The impact of globalization on the academic profession in South Africa: a case study of the merger of New University / Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela
- VII. Conclusions / Nelly P. Stromquist.