Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education: Global Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781137461247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 264 str.

Maria Yudkevich; Philip G. Altbach; Laura E. Rumbley

Opis

Academic inbreeding - hiring and promoting one's own graduates - is generally seen as a negative for academic quality and for universities - it is considered as unhealthy for universities as it is in the natural world. Yet it is remarkably widespread across the globe. This book is the first full scale international analysis of the phenomenon of inbreeding. Research from eight countries (including Argentina, China, Japan, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain and Ukraine) where inbreeding is common examines the phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, tracking its causes: historical tradition, the lack of a national labour market, the limited number of advanced degree holders, and others. Research shows that inbred faculties are not necessarily less productive than their non-inbred peers, but that inbreeding seems to foster hierarchy and a lack of innovative ideas.

Recenzje

"The book is a comparative study in the field of higher education research which can appeal to the researchers dealing with the changes in academic careers in different countries. With its subject, indeed the book is of interest not only for higher education researchers, but also for anyone planning or pursuing an academic career." - European Journal of Higher Education

Spis treści

1. Academic Inbreeding: Local Challenge, Global Problem; Philip G. Altbach, Maria Yudkevich, and Laura E. Rumbley 2. Academic Inbreeding: State of the Literature; Olga Gorelova and Maria Yudkevich 3. Academic Inbreeding in the Argentine University: A Systemic and Organizational Analysis; Marcelo Rabossi 4. Faculty Inbreeding in China: Status, Causes and Results; Hong Shen, Zhiping Xu, and Bingbing Zhang 5. Inbreeding in Japanese Higher Education: Inching Towards Openness in a Globalized Context; Akiyoshi Yonezawa 6. Academic Immobility and Inbreeding in Russian Universities; Elizaveta Sivak and Maria Yudkevich 7. Slovenia: The Slow Decline of Academic Inbreeding; Manja Klemen?i? and Pavel Zgaga 8. Academic Inbreeding: The South African Case; Saleem Badat 9. Academic Inbreeding in Spanish Universities: Perverse Effects in a Global Context; José-Ginés Mora 10. Academic Inbreeding in Ukraine; Ilona Sologoub and Tom Coupé

O autorze

Saleem Badat, Andrew W Melon Foundation, New York, USA Tom Coupé, Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine Manja Klemen?i?, Harvard University, USA José-Ginés Mora, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Marcelo Alberto Rabossi, Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina Hong Shen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Elizaveta Sivak, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Ilona Sologoub, Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Nagoya University, Japan Pavel Zgaga, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia