Can We Still Speak of There Being an Academic Profession?

Autor/in	Shattock, Michael
Titel	Can We Still Speak of There Being an Academic Profession?
Quelle	In: History of Education, 43 (2014) 6, S.727-739 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2014.964008
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Teaching (Occupation); Higher Education; Universities; College Faculty; Educational History; Teacher Responsibility; Teacher Competencies; Group Membership; Organizations (Groups); Governance; Teacher Role; Faculty Development; Teaching Conditions; Self Control; Accountability; Expertise; Knowledge Level; Knowledge Management; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; University; Universität; Fakultät; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Lehrverpflichtung; Lehrkunst; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Lehrerrolle; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Selbstbeherrschung; Verantwortung; Expert appraisal; Wissensbasis; Wissensmanagement; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article seeks to compare the characteristics of the academic profession as described historically by Perkin in 1969 against the definitions of a profession derived from the published views of sociologists and others. It then measures the position of the academic community today against these definitions: a common range of professional tasks and competences, representation by a membership-led organisation, participation in institutional governance, a role in determining professional development and conditions of service, powers of self-regulation, and exclusive control of the knowledge and expertise it professes. The article goes on to analyse how the characteristics of twenty-first century academic life measure up to these provisions and concludes that in many ways they now fall substantially short to the extent that in a strict sense it is no longer possible to claim that academics belong to an academic profession. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10