contemporary credentialism contributions

books:

The Academic Profession: The Professoriate in Crisis (Contemporary Higher Education, 1)
M. Finkelstein

Routledge, 1997

The purpose of this series is to bring together the main currents in today's higher education and examine such crucial issues as the changing nature of education in the U.S., the considerable adjustment demanded of institutions, administrators, the faculty; the role of Catholic education; the remarkable growth of higher education in Latin America, contemporary educational concerns in Europe, and more. Among the many specific questions examined ...

Coaching: a significant career step for women entering the professoriate. (Pedagogy).: An article from: ...
Patt Dodds

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), 2003

This digital document is an article from Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 416 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web ...

Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty (The Jossey-Bass ...
Donald H. Wulff, Ann E. Austin

Jossey-Bass, 2004

Paths to the Professoriate offers all those involved in higher education—everyone from administrators to scholars to graduate students—a much-needed resource that brings together major research, the most important developments in practice, and informed analysis on improving graduate education and preparing the future faculty. This important book includes chapters from some of the best-known researchers, practitioners, and scholars ...

Historical Identities: The Professoriate in Canada

University of Toronto Press, 2006

As intellectual engines of the university, professors hold considerable authority and play an important role in society. By nature of their occupation, they are agents of intellectual culture in Canada. Historical Identities is a new collection of essays examining the history of the professoriate in Canada. Framing the volume with the question, ‘What was it like to be a professor?’ editors Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis, along with an ...

Pictures of the professoriate: this novel made fun of campus politics before campus politics became a ...
Mark Falcoff

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from The American Enterprise, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2635 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Pictures of the professoriate: this novel made ...

The File: Case Study in Correction 1977-1979

2 reviews
Serge Lang

Springer, 1981

Great documentation on an academic controversy
Serge Lang's "file" covering the Ladd-Lipsett 1977 "Survey of the American Professorate" is an insider's look into the politics of poor science. Lang, as usual, exposes the inaccuracies, misstatements and hypocrisy of our nation's leading "intellectuals" by reproducing their very own words. He has actual correspondence from the major characters involved and simply puts them on display for you ...

The Hidden Professoriate: Credentialism, Professionalism, and the Tenure Crisis (Contributions in Sociology)
Arthur S. Wilke

Greenwood Press, 1979

Wilke has called upon sociologists, observers as well as victims of the caste system, to describe by use of case studies and to analyze the plight of non-tenured faculty and their efforts to survive in an increasingly hostile environment. These stories reveal the human factor, too often slighted or forgotten in discussions of the precarious place of the university in today's society.