The Academic Profession /

Unparalleled in its depth and breadth, this volume analyzes the way the academic profession is increasingly differentiated and professionalized in modern society. Its findings will help educators and laymen around the world to understand between the problems and the changing nature of a profession r...

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Other Authors: Clark, Burton R. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Edition:Reprint 2020.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Contributors --  |t Introduction --  |t 1. The Academic Profession in the United Kingdom --  |t 2. The Academic Profession in the Federal Republic of Germany --  |t 3. The Academic Profession in France --  |t 4. The Academic Profession in the United States --  |t 5. The Academic Estate in Western Europe --  |t 6. The Disciplinary Shaping of the Profession --  |t 7. Professional Schools in the American University --  |t 8. Many Sectors, Many Professions --  |t 9. Conclusions --  |t Conference Participants --  |t Index 
520 |a Unparalleled in its depth and breadth, this volume analyzes the way the academic profession is increasingly differentiated and professionalized in modern society. Its findings will help educators and laymen around the world to understand between the problems and the changing nature of a profession responsible for training the members of virtually all the other leading professions. The academic profession provides the basic staff for universities and colleges everywhere. Its competence is central to the competence of higher education. Long a subject for satire and fiction, this key profession as receive a relatively little systematic study. What do we know of its nature? What determines its character and strength, its capacity to carry out the many functions of modern postsecondary education? The authors of these far-ranging studies examine the academic profession in three decisive settings: the national, the disciplinary, and the institutional. The four chapters of Part I, written mainly by historians, point to the similarities and differences in the development an current composition of the profession in Great Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, and the United States, In Part II, chapter give highlights the vast differences in the nature of the profession between continental Europe and America. Chapter six examines the differences exacted by the many disciplines that operate as ongoing concerns organized around specialized bodies of knowledge. Chapters seve and eight concentrate on the American scene, examining respectively the differences between professional schools and the letters and science departments of American research universities, and the varying academic worlds now provided by types of institutions that range from research universities to community colleges. Finally, Burton Clark presents the themes of the volume and a. 
520 8 |a Synthesis of findings in excellent introductory and concluding chapters. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987. 
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