| 书目名称 | The Decline of the Guru | | 副标题 | The Academic Profess | | 编辑 | Philip G. Altbach | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The academic profession faces new challenges everywhere. The pressures of mass higher education, accountability, fiscal constraints, distance education and the new technologies, and changing attitudes concerning academic work have combined to place unprecedented strains on the professoriate. There is no country that has avoided these challenges, although the changes vary. This book brings together some of the best analysts of the academic profession in a wide ranging comparative analysis of the changing academic workplace. The stress here is on middle income and developing countries, but the issues discussed are relevant everywhere. This book, precisely because of its comparative and international perspective, is useful worldwide. Among the topics considered in the case study chapters are: - The changing demographics of the academic profession, including the role of gender in the professoriate - New developments in academic appointments, including the terms of academic work, evaluation of professors, and the tenure system - External pressures on the academic profession, including demands for accountability, threats to academic freedom, and others - The changing nature of academic w | | 出版日期 | Book 2003 | | 关键词 | education; evaluation; higher education; teaching; structural geology | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982568 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4039-6054-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4039-8256-8 | | copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2003 |
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