基本説明
With essays on key topics - including structural and cognitive change, socialization and deviance, career experience, and professional autonomy and regulation - leading scholars in sociology and higher education discuss the fate of this central profession.
Full Description
The academic profession, like many others, is rapidly being transformed. This book explores the current challenges to the profession and their broad implications for American higher education. Examining what professors do and how academia is changing, contributors to this volume assess current and potential threats to the profession. Leading scholars in sociology and higher education explore such topics as structural and cognitive change, socialization and deviance, career development, and professional autonomy and regulation. A comprehensive analysis of the significant questions facing this crucial profession, The American Academic Profession will be welcomed by students and scholars as well as by administrators and policy makers concerned with the future of the academy.
Contents
Preface
Introduction. The Professoriate's Perilous Path
Part I: Structural and Cognitive Change
Chapter 1. Optimizing Research and Teaching: The Bifurcation of Faculty Roles at Research Universities
Chapter 2. Focus on the Classroom: Movements to Reform College Teaching and Learning, 1980- 2008
Chapter 3. Whose Educational Space? Negotiating Professional Jurisdiction in the High-Tech Academy
Chapter 4. American Academe and the Knowledge-Politics Problem
Part II: Socialization and Deviance
Chapter 5. The Socialization of Future Faculty in a Changing Context: Traditions, Challenges, and Possibilities
Chapter 6. Professionalism in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
Part III: Experience of the Academic Career
Chapter 7. Scholarly Learning and the Academic Profession in a Time of Change
Chapter 8. Anomie in the American Academic Profession
Part IV: Autonomy and Regulation
Chapter 9. Academic Freedom, Professional Autonomy, and the State
Chapter 10. Codes of Commerce: The Uses of Business Rhetoric in the American Academy, 1960- 2000
Chapter 11. The Meaning of Regulation in a Changing Academic Profession
Part V: Contemporary and Historical Views
Chapter 12. Professional Control in the Complex University: Maintaining the Faculty Role
Chapter 13. All That Glittered Was Not Gold: Rethinking American Higher Education's Golden Age, 1945- 1970
Contributors
Index
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