Academic Tribes and Territories

Tony Becher was Professor of Education at the University of Sussex. Paul Trowler is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University.

出版者:Open University Press

作者:Tony Becher

页数:256

出版时间:2001-11-09

价格:USD 55.01

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780335206278

图书标签:高等教育知识社会学教育学研究相关学科的分类学科分类学术

How do academics perceive themselves and colleagues in their own disciplines, and how do they rate those in other subjects? How closely related are their intellectual tasks and their ways of organizing their professional lives? What are the interconnections between academic cultures and the nature of disciplines? Academic Tribes and Territories maps academic knowledge and explores the diverse characteristics of those who inhabit and cultivate it.

This second edition provides a thorough update to Tony Becher's classic text, first published in 1989, and incorporates research findings and new theoretical perspectives. Fundamental changes in the nature of higher education and in the academic's role are reviewed and their significance for academic cultures is assessed. This edition moves beyond the first edition's focus on elite universities and the research role to examine academic cultures in lower status institutions internationally and to place a new emphasis on issues of gender and ethnicity. This second edition successfully renews a classic in the field of higher education.