Impacts of University Education Reform on Faculty Perceptions of Workload

Autor/in	Watanabe, Satoshi P.
Titel	Impacts of University Education Reform on Faculty Perceptions of Workload
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 31 (2011) 4, S.407-420 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0218-8791
DOI	10.1080/02188791.2011.621602
Schlagwörter	Student Teaching; Higher Education; Faculty Workload; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Commercialization; Universities; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Surveys; Interviews; Teacher Role; Academic Advising; College Faculty; Teacher Researchers; Competition; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching practice; Unterrichtspraxis; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsreform; Ausland; University; Universität; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Lehrerverhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Lehrerrolle; Akademischer Rat; Fakultät; Lehrerforschung; Wettkampf
Abstract	Since the corporatization of national universities, the environment surrounding Japanese universities has dramatically changed in various respects. A series of government-led attempts have intended to support the domestic colleges and universities in gaining a competitive edge by improving the quality of teaching and research as well as guaranteeing the international validity of the country's higher education system. Impacts of all the challenges that have been tackled with internal efforts in the last few years could be enormous on the personnel workload. However, little is known about the impacts of Japan's recent university education reform, particularly on the changing workload of the faculty who engage at the forefront in student teaching and advising, administrative roles as well as research activities. Using results from individual faculty interviews, this paper attempts to link the changing workload of Japanese professors with specific reasons that are rooted in the country's recent university education reform. Reviewing the effects of the reform on faculty workload provides us with important insights for the long term and guides us to prevent the derailment from the endeavour to which a significant amount of resources have been dedicated by the country. (Contains 10 notes and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10