Early Career Academics In New Zealand Challenges And Prospects In Comparative Perspective

Author : Kathryn A. Sutherland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319618302

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Early Career Academics in New Zealand: Challenges and Prospects in Comparative Perspective by Kathryn A. Sutherland Pdf

What does it mean to be starting an academic career in the twenty first century? What challenges and prospects are new academics facing and how are they dealing with these? This book provides answers to these questions through an investigation of the experiences of early career academics in New Zealand universities. Filling a gap in the international literature on the academic profession by providing a comprehensive overview of the experiences of New Zealand academics, the book includes research findings from a national survey covering all eight New Zealand universities. This research is also compared with various findings from the 2007 Changing Academic Profession survey in 19 other countries. The book encourages readers to think about the early career academic experience in New Zealand in relation to their own experiences of the academic profession internationally. Key areas of focus in the nine chapters include: the teaching, research, and service preferences and activities of early career academics; work-life balance; satisfaction; the experiences of Māori academics; and professional development and support for all early career academics. Underpinning the book is the issue of the socialisation of early career academics into the academic profession in the twenty first century, and how structure and agency interact to affect that socialisation. Suggestions are made, and links to freely available online resources are provided, for improving socialisation at the individual, departmental, institutional, and national levels.

Author : Alper Çalıkoğlu,Glen A. Jones,Yangson Kim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031269950

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Internationalization and the Academic Profession by Alper Çalıkoğlu,Glen A. Jones,Yangson Kim Pdf

This book makes a major contribution to the scholarship on internationalization in higher education by focusing on the perceptions and experiences of the academic profession in a comparative perspective. Drawing from data collected by the Academic Professions in the Knowledge-based Society (APIKS) project, the contributors to this volume are uniquely positioned to explore the impact and implications of internationalization on those who play the central role in the teaching and research functions of higher education: the professoriate. The core chapters address issues such as the roles of gender, discipline, and career stage in the international activities of academics in different countries, national differences in the perceptions and behaviors of university faculty in the internationalization of teaching, and of research within higher education systems on the perceptions and behaviors of academics. Each of these chapters draw on the existing research literature in these thematic areas as a foundation for the systematic analysis of the international APIKS dataset to illuminate and discuss key findings. This book offers a highly original and unique contribution to the study of internationalization in higher education because its editors and contributors, as participants in the APIKS project, have been able to raise and address key research questions using comparative international empirical data on the academic profession that has never before been available. Given the tremendous importance of internationalization and the global dimension of higher education, this volume offers unique, distinctive insights on the implications of internationalization for the academic profession and the very different ways in which these transformations are understood by academics both within and between systems.

Author : Chris Cooper,C. M. Hall
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781035300600

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How to Get Published in the Best Tourism Journals by Chris Cooper,C. M. Hall Pdf

Drawing on a wealth of knowledge and experience from leading tourism academics and journal editors, this practical How To guide offers clear-sighted advice on how to craft a high-quality paper in terms of contribution, positioning and submission. Accessible and comprehensive, it demystifies the process of getting published in the top tourism journals.

Author : Oili-Helena Ylijoki
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529219470

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Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation by Oili-Helena Ylijoki Pdf

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume centres on the lived experience of women working in tech-driven research and innovation areas in the Nordic countries.

Author : Anna Kristina Hultgren,Pejman Habibie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000937848

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Women in Scholarly Publishing by Anna Kristina Hultgren,Pejman Habibie Pdf

Women in Scholarly Publishing explores the under-researched topic of gender and scholarly publishing. Whilst often considered separately, the relationship between gender and scholarly publishing has been neglected. Bringing together experts across Applied Linguistics, this book brings to the fore the challenges and opportunities faced by female academics in both Anglophone and non-Anglophone contexts as they participate in the production and dissemination of knowledge. Contributors show how female scholars’ production and dissemination of knowledge intersects with gendered structures and disciplinary cultures in complex ways. The key strands of work which this volume seeks to bring together include: Essentialism in gender studies and alternative perspectives on how gender should be viewed and studied in knowledge production and dissemination; the specific ways in which the labour and conditions surrounding scholarly publication are gendered or perceived as gendered; the examination of discourses, texts and genres from a gender perspective and the continuing gendered and gendering impacts on career trajectories of women academics. While women’s barriers are documented across geopolities, the book also shows how norms, policies and practices can be challenged and alternative futures imagined. The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, institutional decision makers, writing mentors, early-career scholars and graduate students in a variety of fields.

Author : Eli Bitzer
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928357810

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Spaces, journeys and new horizons for postgraduate supervision by Eli Bitzer Pdf

After centuries of barely visible incremental development, postgraduate education has experienced twenty years of considerable turbulence as governments recognise its latent power, some responding more quickly than others and each in different ways. This anthology, drawing on research, deep reflection and praxis, illustrates the current situation in a range of geographical environments that result from such interventions, or lack of them, providing readers both with information about neglected contexts, challenges and concerns and with stimulating ideas about how they might be managed more effectively. Professor Emerita Pam Denicolo, University of Reading, UK

Author : Thomas de Lange,Line Wittek
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031374586

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Faculty Peer Group Mentoring in Higher Education by Thomas de Lange,Line Wittek Pdf

This book addresses how peer group mentoring in higher education can contribute to the development of supportive and collaborative working environments for faculty staff. It draws on an extensive empirical study examining how group based peer-mentoring methods are implemented and experimented within four different academic communities at one university, and documents how these environments and their participants experience peer group mentoring as a collaborative measure in the development of teaching and supervision practices. The book presents a literature review of research on peer group mentoring in higher education and provides the conceptual grounding for the book, placing peer group mentoring within the field of faculty development. The work presents analyses of the enactment of peer group mentoring in different environments and of faculty peers’ engagement and collaboration with colleagues within the same teacher community, across teaching and supervision communities and across institutional boundaries. It also discusses the significance of trust in these peer group mentoring settings, summarises the implications of the reported findings and addresses the role this peer based approach might play in developing supportive collegiality in higher education as a working environment.

Author : Simon Lygo-Baker,Ian M. Kinchin,Naomi E. Winstone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030208240

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Engaging Student Voices in Higher Education by Simon Lygo-Baker,Ian M. Kinchin,Naomi E. Winstone Pdf

This book examines the importance of exploring the varied and diverse perspectives of student experiences. In both academic institutions and everyday discourse, the notion of the ‘student voice’ is an ever-present reminder of the importance placed upon the student experience in Higher Education: particularly in a context where the financial burden of undertaking a university education continues to grow. The editors and contributors explore how notions of the ‘student voice’ as a single, monolithic entity may in fact obscure divergence in the experiences of students. Placing so much emphasis on the ‘student voice’ may lead educators and policy makers to miss important messages communicated – or consciously uncommunicated – through student actions. This book also explores ways of working in partnership with students to develop their own experiences. It is sure to be of interest and value to scholars of the student experience and its inherent diversity.

Author : Narelle Lemon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000630633

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Reflections on Valuing Wellbeing in Higher Education by Narelle Lemon Pdf

This book focuses on the lived experiences of higher education professionals working in the face of stress, pressure and the threat of burnout and how acts of self-care and wellbeing can support, develop and maintain a sense of self. In considering the place of self-care in higher education, we are challenged with the tension that exists when it comes to the valuing of self-care and our individual and collective wellbeing. In Reflections on Valuing Wellbeing in Higher Education, authors present and explore the ways in which they manage and reframe their wellbeing and self-care, through mindfulness, compassion, connection to breath, ref lection, demonstrating individual and collective embodiment and resistance to neoliberalism and environmental destruction. Covering various contexts of higher education, such as learning and teaching, research, leadership and engagement, this book offers practical strategies grounded in literature and evidence-based research. The self in self-care is relational. It is not just about self. We need others for inspiration, motivation and, indeed, the act. This book will be of great interest to professionals and researchers specifically interested in studies in higher education, wellbeing and/or identity as well as those navigating a career in higher education.

Author : Narelle Lemon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000474015

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Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education by Narelle Lemon Pdf

The workplace has significant influence over our sense of wellbeing. It is a place where many of us spend significant amounts of our time, where we find meaning, and often form a sense of identity. Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education explores the notion of finding meaning across academia as a key part of self-care and wellbeing. In this edited collection, the authors navigate how they find meaning in their work in academia by sharing their own approaches to self-care and wellbeing. In the chapters, visual narratives intersect with lived experience and proactive strategies that reveal the stories, dilemmas, and tensions of those working in higher education. This book illuminates how academics and higher education professionals engage in constant reconstruction of their identity and work practices, placing self-care at the centre of the work they do, as well as revealing new ways of working to disrupt the current climate of dismissing self-care and wellbeing. Designed to inspire, support, and provoke the reader as they navigate a career in higher education, this book will be of great interest to professionals and researchers specifically interested in studies in higher education, wellbeing, and/or identity.

Author : Devesh Kapur,Lily Kong,Florence Lo,David M. Malone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192661036

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The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region by Devesh Kapur,Lily Kong,Florence Lo,David M. Malone Pdf

Since the turn of the millennium it has become clear that the Asia-Pacific Region is, economically, the fastest growing continent in the world, and is likely to remain so for some time despite the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Asia-Pacific's share of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled from 15 per cent to 30 per cent between 1970 and 2017 and is projected to account for half of global GDP by 2050. With South East and South Asia also growing rapidly, with over half the world's population and three of the world's five largest economies, Asia is soon poised to home half of the world's middle class - a class that is both the driver and the product of higher education. The quality of a country's system of higher education may be seen both as a gauge of its current level of national development as well as of its future economic prospects. It is therefore natural that the putative "Asian Century" should generate interest in the region's higher education systems which, on the one hand, share common characteristics-a fixation with credentials and engineering, high technology (especially among male students), and business degrees-while at the same time are also highly differentiated, not only across countries but also within. As such, a better understanding of higher education achievements, failings, potential, and structural limitations in the Asia-Pacific Region is imperative. This handbook presents a number of significant country case-studies and documents cross-cutting trends relating to, among other things: the trilemma faced by governments juggling competing claims of access, accessible cost, and quality; the balance between teaching and research; the links between labour markets (demand) and higher education (supply); preferred fields of study and their consequences; the rise of the research university in Asia; the lure of institutions of international reputation within the region; new education technologies and their effects; and, trends in government policy within the wider region and sub-regions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004540811

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Transforming Teaching and Learning Experiences for Helping Professions in Higher Education by Anonim Pdf

Transforming Teaching and Learning Experiences for the Helping Professions in Higher Education: Global Perspectives explores praxis, theory, methods and tools for educators, students and researchers in the helping professions in a changing world.

Author : Carol Mutch
Publisher : Nzcer Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 0947509755

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Optimising Your Academic Career by Carol Mutch Pdf

Beginning a new career as an academic is a daunting task. Carol Mutch's latest book aims to demystify the process by providing new and intending academics with an insight in what to expect. The book is based around the real-life concerns and questions that were raised by the early career academics she worked with in her innovative Emerging Scholars Forum. Her advice is based on over 30 years in New Zealand's tertiary sector in a range of teaching and leadership positions. It is supplemented by words of wisdom from early career academics and their more experienced colleagues from a range of tertiary institutions and disciplines. While it is clearly grounded in the New Zealand context, it will resonate with new academics further afield--indeed, some of the peer contributors are from universities in Australia and the UK. The book answers many of the questions you would expect, such as, how do you secure an academic position, how do you find a mentor, how do you develop your teaching, and how do you prepare a research plan? The answers include many practical examples, tips, and questions to consider. The three main aspects of an academic's job description--teaching, research and service--are covered in depth and often in ways that challenge misconceptions. The book concludes with a chapter on managing the many conflicting demands of being an academic and then provides suggestions for setting up an Emerging Scholars Forum. Mutch reiterates that life as an academic has its challenges but it also has its advantages and responsibilities. She reminds her readers that as an academic you can use your position to make difference to those around you and to wider society. As one of the early career academics says in the book, "Academic life is a privilege--enjoy it and value it." Carol Mutch is an associate professor and head of school in the School of Critical Studies in Education, in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. She is the author of many books, book chapters and articles on educational research, evaluation, policy and practice. Most recently, she has focused her research and writing on the role of schools in disaster response and recovery following the Canterbury earthquakes. She has been the recipient of awards for her research, teaching and wider contributions to education.

Author : Kathryn Sutherland,Ako Aotearoa National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Career development
ISBN : 1927202507

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[Success in Academia?, the Experiences of Early Career Academics in New Zealand Full Set] by Kathryn Sutherland,Ako Aotearoa National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence Staff Pdf

Author : Kathryn Sutherland,Marc Wilson,Pamela Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Career development
ISBN : OCLC:886952047

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Success in Academia? by Kathryn Sutherland,Marc Wilson,Pamela Williams Pdf