The professoriate in the age of globalization / / edited by Nelly P. Stromquist.

Globalization has profoundly affected the university. It has shaped what is being learned, the use of technologies in the classroom, the connectivity between professors and institutions nationally and worldwide, the conditions of academic work, the relationship between knowledge production and the m...

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Superior document:Global perspectives on higher education ; Volume 8
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2007]
2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Global perspectives on higher education ; Volume 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Nelly P. Stromquist
  • The Academic Profession in the Face of Changing Societal and Institutional Expections / Nelly P. Stromquist
  • Segmentation or Diversification? Conditions of Academic Work in Mexico / Manuel Gil-Antón
  • The Changing Patterns of the Brazilian Academic Profession in the Era of Globalization / Elizabeth Balbachevsky
  • Continuity and Change in a Private University in Peru / Nelly P. Stromquist
  • The Professoriate in Denmark in the Age of Globalization / Carol Colatrella
  • Emerging Inequality in the Academic Profession in Russia / Anna Smolentseva
  • The Impact of Globalization on the Academic Profession in South Africa / Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela
  • Conclusions / Nelly P. Stromquist
  • About the Authors / Nelly P. Stromquist.