Academic Tribes And Territories

Author : Becher, Tony
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335206271
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Tribes And Territories written by Becher, Tony and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaim for the first edition of Academic Tribes and Territories: '...Becher's insistence upon in-depth analysis of the extant literature while reporting his own sustained research doubled the thickness of the material to be covered...Academic Tribes and Territories is a superb addition to the literature on higher education...There is here an education to be had.' (Burton R. Clark, Higher Education) '...Becher's landmark work. The higher education community - both practitioners and educational researchers - need to assimilate and to heed the message of this important and insightful book.' (Alan E. Bayer, Journal of Higher Education) 'a bold approach to a theory of academic relations...The result is a debt to him {Becher} for all students of higher education.' (The Times Educational Supplement) 'a classic in its field...The book is readily accessible to any member of the academic profession, but it also adds significantly to a specialist understanding of the internal life of higher education institutions in Britain and North America. I confidently predict that it will appear prominently on citation indices for many years.' (Gareth Williams, Studies in Higher Education) 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.

Author : Tony Becher
Publisher : Open University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Tribes and Territories written by Tony Becher and published by Open University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Trowler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136488510
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribes and Territories in the 21st Century written by Paul Trowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘tribes and territories’ metaphor for the cultures of academic disciplines and their roots in different knowledge characteristics has been used by those interested in university life and work since the early 1990s. This book draws together research, data and theory to show how higher education has gone through major change since then and how social theory has evolved in parallel. Together these changes mean there is a need to re-theorise academic life in a way which reflects changed contexts in universities in the twenty-first century, and so a need for new metaphors. Using a social practice approach, the editors and contributors argue that disciplines are alive and well, but that in a turbulent environment where many other forces conditioning academic practices exist, their influence is generally weaker than before. However, the social practice approach adopted in the book highlights how this influence is contextually contingent – how disciplines are deployed in different ways for different purposes and with varying degrees of purchase. This important book pulls together the latest thinking on the subject and offers a new framework for conceptualising the influences on academic practices in universities. It brings together a distinguished group of scholars from across the world to address questions such as: Have disciplines been displaced by inter-disciplinarity, having outlived their usefulness? Have other forces acting on the academy pushed disciplines into the background as factors shaping the practices of academics and students there? How significant are disciplinary differences in teaching and research practices? What is their significance in other areas of work in universities? This timely book addresses a pressing concern in modern education, and will be of great interest to university professionals, managers and policy-makers in the field of higher education.

Author : Deborah Grealy
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783838317632
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribes and Territories in Lis written by Deborah Grealy and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conceptual and relational analysis of descriptors, keywords, and abstracts of recent American dissertations in Library and Information Studies reveals cultural and disciplinary patterns in LIS research, which were examined to see whether recent assertions by library practitioners and employers in the U.S. and Canada that the curricula and research in universities that confer the first professional degree for librarians are disconnected from the needs of practice. Rooted in the conceptual anthropological framework developed by Tony Becher and Paul Trowler (2001) in Academic Tribes and Territories, this study examines the increasingly diverse culture of LIS, looking at disciplinary and faculty factors in an effort to delineate the field s current parameters as a field of practice and an academic discipline. The sample was limited to a random selection of dissertations completed between 2000 and 2006 at North American institutions that both offer doctoral programs in library and information studies and confer the ALA-accredited Master s degree.

Author : Hazard Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871406231
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Academic Tribes written by Hazard Adams and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malcolm Tight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474283756
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education Research written by Malcolm Tight and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into higher education has blossomed internationally during the last few decades, as participation in higher education has expanded and concern over delivering it effectively has increased. Higher Education Research offers an overview of what we have learnt through researching different aspects of higher education. Leading academic in the field Malcolm Tight codifies and classifies all research on higher education, offering an accessible but comprehensive guide to the field and its scope. Topics covered include: Teaching and learning Course and design Student experience Quality System policy Institutional management Academic work Knowledge and research Tight discusses the work of key researchers, and explores the varied use of methodologies, theoretical frameworks and research designs. He also identifies topics and areas where further research is needed.

Author : Eveline J. van der Steen
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042913851
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribes and Territories in Transition written by Eveline J. van der Steen and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the central East Jordan Valley, the period of the fall of the Egyptian New Kingdom, and of the birth of a new era, in which small kingdoms such as Ammon, Moab and Israel were born. A broad spectrum of sources is being reviewed: written evidence, excavations and surveys, and ethnographic sources from the 19th century and later. New archaeological evidence is being presented, including a report on the excavations of Tell el-Hammeh on the Zerqa. This evidence, written, material and ethnographical, is incorporated in a new model for the LB-IA transition in the region: a model that explains the events of this turbulent period as the precipitation of a tribal society, where the interactions of tribes and territories determined the political lay-out and shaped the kingdoms of the Iron Age.

Author : Mark Bray
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402061889
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Education Research written by Mark Bray and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches and methods in comparative education research are of obvious importance, but do not always receive adequate attention. This book contributes new insights within the longstanding traditions of the field. A particular feature is the focus on different units of analysis. Individual chapters compare places, systems, times, cultures, values, policies, curricula and other units. These chapters are contextualised within broader analytical frameworks which identify the purposes and strengths of the field. The book includes a focus on intra-national as well as cross-national comparisons, and highlights the value of approaching themes from different angles. The book will be of great value not only to producers of comparative education research but also to consumers who wish to understand more thoroughly the parameters and value of the field.

Author : Gill Nicholls
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134310005
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge to Scholarship written by Gill Nicholls and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a lively and engaging investigation that seeks to establish what it means to be a scholar and the value of scholarship.

Author : Eli Bitzer
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920338144
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education in South Africa written by Eli Bitzer and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher Education in South Africa should be of considerable interest to higher education researchers outside of South Africa, as well as within, for the general and comparative assessments it makes. The South African higher education researchers included within its covers have clearly engaged with research and writing from many parts of the world, which they have then applied to make sense of their own condition. - Malcolm Tight Lancaster University, UK