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Book SynopsisWhat makes a professor? The answer depends on where in the world you are. Winner of the CIHE Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education by the Association for the Study of Higher EducationIn the twenty-first century, universities worldwide have found themselves thrust into a great brain race as nations, both developed and developing, seek to enhance their place in the global knowledge economy. As the concept of the de-localized universityone that has radically expanded, perhaps even beyond national bordersgrows, competing nations have begun reshaping aspects of their national systems to accommodate global standards and metrics. In Professorial Pathways, Martin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones consider how academic careers vary in countries that are fundamentally different in their organization and dynamics. Building on 25 years of scholarship, the book confronts major questions: What can we learn from the experience of other nations as they seek to balance the s
Trade ReviewWhat makes this well-written and very readable book unique is that it shows clearly how the crucial issues at stake are not only the subjective factors, such as where it is "better or worse" to work as an academic, but the ways in which structural imbalances increasingly shape the sector globally and reach well beyond the traditional boundaries of academia, thereby impacting on so many other aspects of the lives of individuals working in the field and beyond.
—Aniko Horvath,
Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Academic Profession Enters a New Global Era
Martin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones
Chapter 2. Germany: Unpredictable Career Progression but Security at the Top
Barbara M. Kehm
Chapter 3. France: Marginal Formal Changes but Noticeable Evolutions
Christine Musselin
Chapter 4. United Kingdom: Institutional Autonomy and National Regulation, Academic Freedom and Managerial Authority
Peter Scott
Chapter 5. Russia: Higher Education, between Survival and Innovation
Maria Yudkevich
Chapter 6. Brazil: An Emerging Academic Market in Transition
Elizabeth Balbachevsky
Chapter 7. India: The Challenge of Change
N. Jayaram
Chapter 8. China: The Changing Relationship between Academics, Institutions, and the State
Fengqiao Yan and Dan Mao
Chapter 9. Japan: Opening Up the Academic Labor Market
Akiyoshi Yonezawa
Chapter 10. United States: A Story of Marketization, Professional Fragmentation (Stratification), and Declining Opportunity
Martin J. Finkelstein
Chapter 11. Canada: Decentralization, Unionization, and the Evolution of Academic Career Pathways
Glen A. Jones
Chapter 12. Looking across Systems: Implications for Comparative, International Studies of Academic Work
Glen A. Jones and Martin J. Finkelstein
List of Contributors
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