Higher education in East Asia : : neoliberalism and the professoriate / / [edited by] Gregory S. Poole, Ya-chen Chen.

• TeilnehmendeR: Poole, Gregory S. 1963-; Chen, Ya-chen,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]; 2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Global Perspectives on Higher Education 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Although scholars in various academic fields have a keen interest in the social institutions that reproduce the university system, generally their gaze has been averted from a close analysis of the professors themselves. This volume aims to initiate a project of describing academic traditions at uni...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Gregory S. Poole and Ya-chen Chen
• Introduction / Gregory S. Poole and Ya-Chen Chen
• The Japanese Professoriate / Roger Goodman
• Administrative Work as Reform in Japanese Higher Education / William Bradley
• Faculty Members at a Japanese Private University / Gregory S. Poole
• Ideologies and Practices of Naming in a Cross-Cultural Educational Context / Debra J. Occhi
• Retooling Japan for the 21st Century / Philip Maclellan
• Hong Kong Chinese Professors within the “Western” University Model / Gordon Mathews
• The Narrowing of Intellectual Space by Western Management Discourses / Angel Lin
• Toward a More Complete Understanding of Chinese Academic Feminism / Ya-Chen Chen
• From “Instructors” to “Researchers” / Hongli Li
• Local Thinking, Global Dreams / J. S. Eades
• About the Authors / Gregory S. Poole and Ya-chen Chen
• Index / Gregory S. Poole and Ya-chen Chen.