{"product_id":"professorial-pathways-9781421428734","title":"Professorial Pathways","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e—Aniko Horvath, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Introduction: The Academic Profession Enters a New Global Era\u003cbr\u003eMartin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Germany: Unpredictable Career Progression but Security at the Top\u003cbr\u003eBarbara M. Kehm\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. France: Marginal Formal Changes but Noticeable Evolutions\u003cbr\u003eChristine Musselin\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. United Kingdom: Institutional Autonomy and National Regulation, Academic Freedom and Managerial Authority\u003cbr\u003ePeter Scott\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Russia: Higher Education, between Survival and Innovation\u003cbr\u003eMaria Yudkevich\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Brazil: An Emerging Academic Market in Transition\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Balbachevsky\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. India: The Challenge of Change\u003cbr\u003eN. Jayaram\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. China: The Changing Relationship between Academics, Institutions, and the State\u003cbr\u003eFengqiao Yan and Dan Mao\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Japan: Opening Up the Academic Labor Market\u003cbr\u003eAkiyoshi Yonezawa\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. United States: A Story of Marketization, Professional Fragmentation (Stratification), and Declining Opportunity\u003cbr\u003eMartin J. Finkelstein\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Canada: Decentralization, Unionization, and the Evolution of Academic Career Pathways\u003cbr\u003eGlen A. Jones\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Looking across Systems: Implications for Comparative, International Studies of Academic Work\u003cbr\u003eGlen A. Jones and Martin J. Finkelstein\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408128516439,"sku":"9781421428734","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421428734.jpg?v=1730501688","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/professorial-pathways-9781421428734","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}