The Decline of the Guru: The Academic Profession in Developing and Middle-Income Countries

ISBN-13: 9781403960542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 338 str.

P Altbach

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction; P.G.Altbach Comparative Perspectives on the Changing Academic Workplace; P.G.Altbach Russia; A.Smolentseva Poland; M.Kwiek Bulgaria; S.I.Slantcheva Korea; S.Lee China; X.Chen India; N.Jayaram Malaysia; M.N.N.Lee Mexico; M.G.Anton Brazil; E.Balbachevsky Argentina; C.Marquis South Africa; J.Kabaki Nigeria; M.Barrow The Arabian Gulf; A.Mazawi

O autorze

Philip G. Altbach is J. Donald Monan, S. J. University Professor and Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, USA. He has been distinguished scholar leader of the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program. He is co-author of Trends in Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution.