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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Title The contemporary professoriate : towards a diversified or segmented profession? / Nelly P. Stromquist ...
Publication year 2007
Source/Footnote In: Higher education quarterly. - 61 (2007) 2, S. 114 - 135
Inventory number 22387
Keywords Hochschule und Staat : allgemein ; Hochschule : Verwaltung allgemein ; Ausland : Dänemark : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Ausland : Mexiko : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Ausland : Peru : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Ausland : Brasilien : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Ausland : Südafrika : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Ausland : Rußland : Hochschulwesen allgemein
Abstract On the empirical basis of six national studies (Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Denmark, Russia and South Africa), this paper examines the phenomenon of segmentation, defined as the solidification of deep hierarchies with little crossover between categories of institutions or individuals. The massification of higher education has brought about a great diversity of institutions and, concomitantly, stark differences among the professoriate. While the public sector has to some extent been able to protect its academic personnel, the for-profit sector is moving towards an unstable professoriate, poorly paid, hired mostly on a per-hour basis, and for whom sharing in academic governance is a distant dream. Some of this differentiation is emerging also within institutions and a new kind of academic who could be termed ?just-in-time knowledge worker? is on the rise. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)