The Decline of the Guru : The Academic Profession in Developing and Middle-Income Countries
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1403960542
ISBN-13
9781403960542
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 12th, 2003
Print length
338 Pages
Weight
396 grams
Product Classification:
Open learning, home learning, distance education
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This work brings together some of the best analysts of the academic profession in a wide-ranging comparative analysis of the changing academic workplace. The stress here is on middle income and developing countries, but the issues discussed are relevant everywhere.
The academic profession faces new challenges everywhere. The pressures of mass higher education, accountability, fiscal constraints, distance education and the new technologies, and changing attitudes concerning academic work have combined to place unprecedented strains on the professoriate. There is no country that has avoided these challenges, although the changes vary. This book brings together some of the best analysts of the academic profession in a wide ranging comparative analysis of the changing academic workplace. The stress here is on middle income and developing countries, but the issues discussed are relevant everywhere. This book, precisely because of its comparative and international perspective, is useful worldwide.
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