Key challenges to the academic profession : UNESCO Forum on Higher Education Research and Knowledge ; International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel
Titelübersetzung:Hauptaufgaben für die akademische Profession
Herausgeber/in:
Kogan, Maurice; Teichler, Ulrich
Quelle: Workshop "The Changing Academic Profession"; Kassel: Jenior (Werkstattberichte / Universität Kassel, Internationales Zentrum für Hochschulforschung -INCHER-, Nr. 65), 2007. 220 S.
Inhalt: "The academic profession all over the world has experienced substantial and rapid changes of its societal, institutional and academic environment. The gradual move towards the knowledge society provided opportunities for a growth of the number of academics but the challenges to reconsider the professional role were by no means without any hardship. The authors of this volume address four areas of key challenges to the academic profession. What do the rising expectations to generate and disseminate relevant knowledge mean: a leap from 'scholarship of discovery' to 'scholarship of application' or new combinations of discovery with social, economic and cultural implications? How does internationalisation affect academics: as a step towards a cosmopolitan academic world or as legalistic competition on world scale? How does the growing power of institutional management shape the academic role: Does the dependent 'knowledge worker' substitute the 'republic of scholars', or is there a new space for academic freedom and responsibility? What does the expansion of graduate education mean: an extension of school-type learning towards the doctorate, or an increased chance of open discourse between senior academics and academics in their formative years? The papers comprised in this volume were presented to a workshop held on 5-6 September 2006 in Kassel, Germany. It was initiated and supported by the Regional Scientific Committee Europe and North America of the UNESCO Forum for Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, jointly prepared with scholars collaborating in the international comparative survey 'The Changing Academic Profession' scheduled for 2007, and locally organized by the International Centre for Higher Education Research, University of Kassel. The authors addressed the challenges named both comparatively and with emphasis on the experiences from their countries." (author's abstract). Contents: Maurice Kogan, Ulrich Teichler: Key Challenges to the Academic Profession and its Interface with Management: Some Introductory Thoughts (9-18); John Brennan: The Academic Profession and Increasing Expectations of Relevance (19-28); Akira Arimoto: Reflections on the Changing Relevance of the Academic Profession in Japan (29-48); Jesus Francisco Galaz-Fontes, Laura Padilla-Gonzalez, Manuel Gil-Anton: The Increasing Expectation of Relevance for Higher Education and the Academic Profession: Some Reflections on the Case of Mexico (49-64); V. Lynn Meek: Internationalisation of Higher Education and the Australian Academic Profession (65-80); Futao Huang: Challenges of Internationalization of Higher Education and Changes in the Academic Profession: A Perspective from Japan (81-98); Agnete Vabo: Challenges of Internationalization for the Academic Profession in Norway (99-110); Barbara M. Kehm: The Changing Role of Graduate and Doctoral Education as a Challenge to the Academic Profession: Europe and North America Compared Barbara (111-124); Hong Shen: Challenges on the Academic Profession Development Posed by the Changing Doctoral Education in China (125-144); Martin J. Finkelstein: The "New" Look of Academic Careers in the United States (145-158); Maurice Kogan: The Academic Profession and its Interface with Management (159-174); Christine Musselin: Transformation of Academic Work: Facts and Analysisistine Musselin (175-190); Mary Henkel: Shifting Boundaries and the Academic Profession (191-204).
Inhalt: "Graduates from institutions of Higher Education do not only hope to get employed and be better paid. Study can also have an impact on employment and work in many respects: facilitating transition to employment, opening up opportunities for demanding, interesting and responsible professional assignments, increasing remuneration and job security, providing opportunities for continuing learning and leading the way to international mobility and visibly international assignments. The book provides a series of detailed analyses of graduate employment and work in comparative perspective. It draws from the survey of graduates from 11 European countries and Japan first published in H. Schomburg und U. Teichler 'Higher Education and Graduate Employment and Work' (2006). In this volume, scholars from twelve countries show how transition to employment, job assignments, employment assessments of the quality of employment and work vary by the graduates' socio-biographic and educational background. It also focuses on experiences during the course of study and competences acquired, international experience, regional background and regions of employment. It demonstrates more substantial differences of the relationships between study and subsequent employment between various countries than previous debates and analyses have suggested." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Arbeitswelt und Arbeitsmarkt, Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Europa und Internationales
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Brennpunkt Hochschule : neuere Analysen zu Hochschule, Beruf und Gesellschaft
Titelübersetzung:Universities as the focus of attention : recent analyses of universities, occupations and society
Herausgeber/in:
Teichler, Ulrich; Daniel, Hans-Dieter; Enders, Jürgen
Quelle: Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verl. (Campus Forschung, 775), 1998. 294 S.
Inhalt: "Der Band gibt einen Überblick zu den Konzeptionen und Ergebnissen der wichtigsten Forschungsprojekte, die am Wissenschaftlichen Zentrum für Berufs- und Hochschulforschung der Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel im zweiten Jahrzehnt seines Bestehens durchgeführt wurden. Die Ergebnisse der Forschungsarbeiten, die in diesen Beiträgen behandelt werden, sind größtenteils in ausführlicher Form veröffentlicht worden. Die zusammenfassende Darstellung in diesem Rahmen soll vor allem den Kontext der Studien und Forschungsthemen stärker beleuchten und die Ergebnisse in kurzer Übersicht zusammenfassen. Die Bilanz dieser Forschungsergebnisse wird durch einen Beitrag zum thematischen Rahmen und zur instiutionellen Situation der Hochschulforschung sowie zu den Ergebnissen der verschiedenen Forschungsarbeiten in den letzten zehn Jahren und den Perspektiven zukünftiger Forschung am Wissenschaftlichen Zentrum für Berufs- und Hochschulforschung ergänzt. Hierdurch soll - über das hinaus, was bereits in den vorangehenden Einzelbeiträgen sichtbar wird - die konzeptionelle und thematische Breite der Forschungsarbeiten verdeutlicht werden und auf neue Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Forschung zu Hochschule, Beruf und Gesellschaft hingewiesen werden: etwa in der Veränderung der Stellung der Hochschule durch die 'Verwissenschaftlichung der Gesellschaft', der Diskussion um die Differenzierung des Hochschulwesens und die Profilbildung der Hochschulen, der Wirkungen der ländergrenzüberschreitenden 'Regionalisierung', 'Internationalisierung' bwz. 'Globalisierung' auf die Hochschulen, dem Wandel der Lern- und Lebensstile der Studierenden und der Rolle der Hochschullehrer oder der zunehmenden Beobachtung und Bewertung der Leistungen der Hochschulen." (Autorenreferat)