Academic Work

Author : Tatiana Fumasoli,Gaële Goastellec,Barbara M. Kehm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319107202

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Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives by Tatiana Fumasoli,Gaële Goastellec,Barbara M. Kehm Pdf

This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academics’ perceptions of their professional contexts. The book demonstrates a growing diversity within the academic profession and new professional roles inhabiting a space which is neither located in the core business of teaching and research nor at the top level management and leadership. The new higher education professionals tend to be important change agents within the higher education institutions not only fulfilling service and bridging functions but also streamlining academic work to make a contribution to the reputation and competitiveness of the institution as a whole. Based on interviews with academic staff, this book explores the situation in eight European countries: Austria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Romania, and Switzerland.

Author : Mariusz Finkielsztein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000418804

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Boredom and Academic Work by Mariusz Finkielsztein Pdf

Introducing the notion of boredom into the academic context, Boredom and Academic Work proposes a fresh sociological perspective on boredom and academic work alike. It invites a reader to reflect on the essence of boredom and the nature of academic work from the sociological perspective. It constitutes methodological and conceptual guidance for all those interested in their own emotions both at work and outside. It also provides an original, interactional and essential definition of boredom and a novel standpoint for observing academic work, both in its systemic and practical level, and shows how the academic system influences its subjects' well-being, motivation, emotions, and practices. Covering various approaches from the qualitative methodology, linguistics, sociology of work, emotions, and higher education, and telling a story of research and teaching university staff, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas and the general academic public as well.

Author : Peter Michael Blau
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412838126

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The Organization of Academic Work by Peter Michael Blau Pdf

Author : Kazumi Okamoto
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838269375

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Academic Culture: An Analytical Framework for Understanding Academic Work by Kazumi Okamoto Pdf

That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversity has become common sense. The social sciences gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorizing applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities in any social practice—except the social sciences and how they create knowledge, which is is off limits. Social science theorizing seemingly assumes that creating knowledge does not know such diversities. In this book, Kazumi Okamoto develops analytical tools to study academic culture, analyze how social sciences create and distribute knowledge, and the influence the academic environment has on knowledge production. She uses the academy in Japan as a case study of how social scientists interpret academic practices and how they are affected by their academic environment. Studying Japanese academic culture, she reveals that academic practices and the academic environment in Japan show much less diversity than cultural theories tend to presuppose.

Author : Peter M. Blau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000664188

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The Organization of Academic Work by Peter M. Blau Pdf

This book originated in an analysis of government bureaucracies. Peter Blau was led to wonder whether corresponding patterns are observable in the administrative structures of other types of organisations. This text examines the institutions of higher education, which Blau believes are the formal organisations that differ most in objectives and performance from government bureaucracies.

Author : Liudvika Leišytė,Uwe Wilkesmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317437352

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Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education by Liudvika Leišytė,Uwe Wilkesmann Pdf

Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education explores how managers influence teaching, learning and academic identities and how new initiatives in teaching and learning change the organizational structure of universities. By building on organizational studies and higher education studies literatures, Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education offers a unique perspective, presenting empirical evidence from different parts of the world. This edited collection provides a conceptual frame of organizational change in universities in the context of New Public Management reforms and links it to the core activities of teaching and learning. Split into four main sections: University from the organizational perspective, Organizing teaching, Organizing learning and Organizing identities, this book uses a strong international perspective to provide insights from three continents regarding the major differences in the relationships between the university as an organization and academics. It contains highly pertinent, scientifically driven case studies on the role and boundaries of managerial behaviour in universities. It supplies evidence-based knowledge on the effectiveness of management behaviour and tools to university managers and higher education policy-makers worldwide. Academics who aspire to institutionalize their successful academic practices in certain university structures will find this book of particular value. Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education will be a vital companion for academic interest in higher education management, transformation of universities, teaching, learning, academic work and identities. Bringing together the study of the organizational transformation in higher education with the study of teaching, learning and academic identity, Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education presents a unique cross-national and cross-regional comparative perspective.

Author : Loleen Berdahl,Jonathan Malloy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487594268

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Work Your Career by Loleen Berdahl,Jonathan Malloy Pdf

"The supposed extinction of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland in the early nineteenth century is a foundational moment in Canadian history. Increasingly under scrutiny, non-Indigenous perceptions of the Beothuk have had especially dire and far-reaching ramifications for contemporary Indigenous people in Newfoundland and Labrador. Tracing Ochre reassesses popular beliefs about the Beothuk. Placing the group in global context, Fiona Polack and a diverse collection of contributors juxtapose the history of the Beothuk with the experiences of other Indigenous peoples outside of Canada, including those living in former British colonies as diverse as Tasmania, South Africa, and the islands of the Caribbean. Featuring contributions of Indigenous and non-Indigenous thinkers from a wide range of scholarly and community backgrounds, Tracing Ochre aims to definitively shift established perceptions of a people who were among the first to confront European colonialism in North America."--

Author : Tanya Fitzgerald,Julie White,Helen Gunter
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781780525013

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Hard Labour? Academic Work and the Changing Landscape of Higher Education by Tanya Fitzgerald,Julie White,Helen Gunter Pdf

Drawing on data from Australia, England and New Zealand, this book addresses how neo liberal policies of successive governments have decreased autonomy of academics and increased regimes of surveillance, radically altering how academics think about and engage in their intellectual work.

Author : Corynne McSherry
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674040892

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Who Owns Academic Work? by Corynne McSherry Pdf

Who owns academic work? This question is provoking political and legal battles, fought on uncertain terrain, for ever-higher stakes. The posting of faculty lecture notes on commercial Web sites is being hotly debated in multiple forums, even as faculty and university administrators square off in a battle for professorial copyright. In courtrooms throughout the country, universities find themselves embroiled in intricate and expensive patent litigation. Meanwhile, junior researchers are appearing in those same courtrooms, using intellectual property rules to challenge traditional academic hierarchies. All but forgotten in these ownership disputes is a more fundamental question: should academic work be owned at all? Once characterized as a kind of gift, academic work--and academic freedom--are now being reframed as private intellectual property. Drawing on legal, historical, and qualitative research, Corynne McSherry explores the propertization of academic work and shows how that process is shaking the foundations of the university, the professoriate, and intellectual property law. The modern university's reason for being is inextricably tied to that of the intellectual property system. The rush of universities and scholars to defend their knowledge as property dangerously undercuts a working covenant that has sustained academic life--and intellectual property law--for a century and a half. As the value structure of the research university is replaced by the inequalities of the free market, academics risk losing a language for talking about knowledge as anything other than property. McSherry has written a book that ought to deeply trouble everyone who cares about the academy.

Author : Ulrich Teichler,Ester Ava Höhle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400759770

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The Work Situation of the Academic Profession in Europe: Findings of a Survey in Twelve Countries by Ulrich Teichler,Ester Ava Höhle Pdf

This book presents the analysis of the representative survey about the academic profession in twelve European countries. Higher education in Europe has experienced a substantial change in recent years: Expansion progresses further, the expectation to deliver useful contributions of knowledge to the “knowledge society” is on the rise, and efforts to steer academic work through external forces and strong international management are more widespread than ever. Representative surveys of the academic profession in twelve European countries show how professors and junior staff at universities and other institutions of higher education view the role of higher education in society and their professional situation and how they actually shape their professional tasks. Academics differ across Europe substantially in their employment and working conditions, their views and their activities. Most of them favour the preservation of a close link between teaching and research and feel responsible for both theory and practice. Most consider efforts to enhance academic quality and social relevance as compatible. The overall satisfaction with their professional situation is rather high.

Author : Jeremy Boss,Susan Eckert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387354279

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Academic Scientists at Work by Jeremy Boss,Susan Eckert Pdf

A guide for scientists on the journey from the end of a postdoctoral career to the point of promotion to Associate Professor, this 2nd edition focuses on three aspects of the academic setting: Scholarship, Teaching, and Service. Valuable advice is provided on such topics as choosing and landing an academic job; setting up and managing the lab; obtaining funds; organizing, writing, and publishing your work; teaching and mentoring; and the promotion and tenure process.

Author : Teresa Crew
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781837531202

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The Intersections of a Working-Class Academic Identity by Teresa Crew Pdf

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Acknowledging the institutional challenges that hinder the work and careers of working-class academics, Teresa Crew calls for a more inclusive and equitable higher education landscape.

Author : Alexander Clark,Bailey Sousa
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781526449047

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How to Be a Happy Academic by Alexander Clark,Bailey Sousa Pdf

Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic? This book helps you hone your skills, showcase your strengths, and manage all the professional aspects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and Bailey encourage you to focus on your own behaviours and personal challenges and help you to find real world solutions to your problems or concerns. Weaving inspirational stories, the best of research and theory, along with pragmatic advice from successful academics, this book provides step-by-step guidance and simple tools to help you better meet the demands of modern academia, including: Optimising your effectiveness, priorities & strategy Workflow & managing workload Interpersonal relationships, and how to influence Developing your writing, presenting and teaching skills Getting your work/life balance right. Clear, practical and refreshingly positive this book inspires you to build the career you want in academia.

Author : Carole Binns
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527539754

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Experiences of Academics from a Working-Class Heritage by Carole Binns Pdf

This book is a twist on the current discourse around ‘inclusivity’ and ‘widening participation’. Higher education is welcoming students from diverse educational, social, and economic backgrounds, and yet it predominantly employs middle-class academics. Conceptually, there appears, on at least these grounds alone, to be a cultural and class mismatch. This work discusses empirical interviews with tenured academics from a working-class heritage employed in one UK university. Interviewees talk candidly about their childhood backgrounds, their school experiences, and what happened to them after leaving compulsory education. They also reveal their experiences of university, both as students and academics from their early careers to the present day. This book will be of interest to an international audience that includes new and aspiring academics who come from a working-class background themselves. The multifaceted findings will also be relevant to established academics and students of sociology, education studies and social class.

Author : Kelly Ward,Lisa Wolf-Wendel
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813553214

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Academic Motherhood by Kelly Ward,Lisa Wolf-Wendel Pdf

Academic Motherhood tells the story of over one hundred women who are both professors and mothers and examines how they navigated their professional lives at different career stages. Kelly Ward and Lisa Wolf-Wendel base their findings on a longitudinal study that asks how women faculty on the tenure track manage work and family in their early careers (pre-tenure) when their children are young (under the age of five), and then again in mid-career (post-tenure) when their children are older. The women studied work in a range of institutional settings—research universities, comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges—and in a variety of disciplines, including the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. Much of the existing literature on balancing work and family presents a pessimistic view and offers cautionary tales of what to avoid and how to avoid it. In contrast, the goal of Academic Motherhood is to help tenure track faculty and the institutions at which they are employed “make it work.” Writing for administrators, prospective and current faculty as well as scholars, Ward and Wolf-Wendel bring an element of hope and optimism to the topic of work and family in academe. They provide insight and policy recommendations that support faculty with children and offer mechanisms for problem-solving at personal, departmental, institutional, and national levels.