The Disreputable Profession
Author : Mendel Kohansky
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 1984-05-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Mendel Kohansky
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 1984-05-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Mendel Kohansky
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 1984-05-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0313238243
Author : Sarah Bond
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472130080
Applies new methodological approaches to the study of ancient history
Author : Harriet Monroe
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Architecture
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Author : Stephen Richards Graubard
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release :
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412835848
"This book covers well the issues and problems of the U.S. academic profession in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Contemporary Science The tale of the American academic profession-that large company of men and women, unprecedented in its size and diversity-needs to be written. A large historical literature on America's colleges and universities exists, but much of it is unashamedly hagiographic. On the other hand, more critical works see American universities as being in dire need of massive reform. This charge is not sustained by the contributors to The American Academic Profession, who hope to shatter the code of silence that passes for discretion, by focusing on the forces that have conspired to create the American academic profession. Graubard includes contributions from important scholars around the world: "How the Academic Profession is Changing" by Arthur Levine; "Small Worlds, Different Worlds: The Uniqueness and Troubles of American Academic Professions" by Burton R. Clark; "The Elusive Academic Profession: Complexity and Change" by Francis Oakley; "Uncertainties in the Changing Academic Profession" by Walter E. Massey; "Stewards of Opportunity: America's Public Community Colleges" by Patrick M. Callan; "Public Universities as Academic Workplaces" by Patricia J. Gumport; "Survival of the Fittest? Postgraduate Education and the Professoriate at the Fin de Sicle" by R. M. Douglas; "Reflections on the Culture Wars" by Eugene Goodheart; "A Blow Is Like an Instrument" by Charles Bernstein; "The Science Wars and the Future of the American Academic Profession" by Jay A. Labinger; "The Scientist as Academic" by Cheryl B. Leggon; "The 'Place' of Knowledge in the American Academic Profession" by Sheldon Rothblatt; "Border Crossings: Organizational Boundaries and Challenges to the American Professoriate" by Theodore R. Mitchell; "The Development of Information Technology in American Higher Education" by Martin Trow; and "An International Academic Crisis? The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective" by Philip G. Altbach. The American Academic Profession is not sanguine about what is currently happening in higher education, or what it imagines the future portends. It simply asks the question: Can a society truly understand its universities and colleges when it has moved too quickly from uncritical admiration to uniformed and ungenerous complaint? This volume intends to dispel some long-persistent myths in favor of objective truth. It is a must for anyone interested in academic problems, for those who work in higher education, and for everyone interested in American ideas, traditions, and social and intellectual history. Stephen R. Graubard is editor of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and its journal, Daedalus, and professor of history emeritus at Brown University.
Author : Keith M Macdonald
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1995-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780803986343
The Sociology of the Professions is essential reading for any student of this increasingly important area of study. Lucid, clearly written and argued, Keith M. Macdonald has written an essential primer on sociology and the professions. "Keith M. Macdonald's work is richly nuanced, eminently comparative, and singularly suggestive--and thoroughly engrossing, to boot. It begins with the assertion that the currently regnant framework for dealing with professions is considerably less illuminating than that provided by scholars in the symbolic interactionist tradition, i.e., the 'collective mobility project' of the drive of occupations toward professional status. For Macdonald, this is 'the professional project' whose components he describes.
Author : Melville Weston Fuller
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : William De Witt Hyde
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Vocational guidance
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Publisher :
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Teeth
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Author : James Mickel Williams
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Social psychology
ISBN :