Faculty Professionalism: Failures of Socialization and the Road to Loss of Professional Autonomy

Autor/in	Hamilton, Neil
Titel	Faculty Professionalism: Failures of Socialization and the Road to Loss of Professional Autonomy
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 92 (2006) 4, (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Failure; Socialization; Professional Autonomy; Academic Freedom; Role; College Faculty; Peer Evaluation; Ethics; Graduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Socialisation; Sozialisation; Berufsfreiheit; Akademische Freiheit; Rollen; Fakultät; Ethik; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin
Abstract	In the tradition of peer review, the members of a profession form with society an unwritten contract whereby society grants the profession autonomy to govern itself and, in return, the members of the profession agree to meet correlative personal and collegial group duties to society. The members of the profession agree to restrain self-interest to some degree in order to serve the public purpose of the profession (knowledge creation and dissemination, in the case of the academic profession), to promote the ideals and core values of the profession, and to maintain high standards of minimum performance. This article discusses the "social contract" in the context of the academic profession, which embodies the concepts of professional autonomy, academic freedom and the central role of peer review with respect to academic freedom. "Faculty professionalism" defines the ethical duties required by the social contract for each professor as well as for the relevant groups of professional peers. The author describes six principles of faculty professionalism that capture the correlative duties of academic freedom, including a faculty member's contributions to peer review and shared governance, and warns that the failure of the academic profession to renew the social contract in each generation through intentional socialization on faculty professionalism will eventually lead to loss of professional autonomy. (Contains 4 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10