The Academic Life. Small Worlds, Different Worlds. A Carnegie Foundation Special Report.

Autor/in	Clark, Burton R.
Institution	Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ.
Titel	The Academic Life. Small Worlds, Different Worlds. A Carnegie Foundation Special Report.
Quelle	(1987), (376 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	0-931050-32-4
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Careers; College Faculty; Culture; Higher Education; Institutional Characteristics; Organizations (Groups); Power Structure; Professional Occupations; Professors; Research Utilization; Researchers; Teaching (Occupation) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Career; Karriere; Fakultät; Kultur; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Berufsklassifikation; Forschungsumsetzung; Researcher; Forscher; Teaching; Lehrberuf
Abstract	The condition of the academic profession today is examined with a focus on the teaching and research functions in the academy. The diverse settings in which academics work are considered in three parts: (1) the foundations of the academic profession (the evolution of institutions; the elaboration of disciplines; and the open system); (2) the dimensions of academic professionalism (the imperatives of academic work; the enclosures of culture; the grip of authority; the promises of career; and the ties of association); and (3) the logic of the profession. Three judgments on the logic of the academic profession in America deal with: the hegemony of subjects; the dual commitment of academics to subjects and institutions, which greatly strengthens centrifugal forces in the profession; and the nature of research and teaching as human activities that promote the tendency for academic life to remain a calling. Appended are research focus and procedures; American disciplinary associations (1985); supplementary tables on the imperatives of academic work, the enclosures of culture, and the promises of career. Contains 11 pages of references and 17 tables. (SM)
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