Forming, Recruiting and Managing the Academic Profession
Forming, Recruiting and Managing the Academic Profession

Author: Ulrich Teichler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-06-05

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 331916080X

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This book focuses on the changes in academic careers and their implications for job attachment and the management of academic work. Against the background of an ageing profession, with different demands on academic staff, increasing insecurity, accountability and internationalisation, it discusses important, common themes in detail. This book examines such aspects as the nature of academic careers and recent changes in careers, changing biographies, rewards of academic work such as income and job satisfaction, internationalisation of the academy, and the organisation and management of academic work sites. This book is the second of two books highlighting findings from research on the academic profession, notably, the Changing Academic Profession Study and the European project supported by the European Science Foundation on changes in the academic profession in Europe (EUROAC). An adapted version of the CAP questionnaire has been used to carry out the survey in those countries that had not been involved before in the CAP survey. Altogether 19 countries are covered by the CAP project and an additional seven European countries are covered by EUROAC.

Youth Cultures, Language, and Literacy
Youth Cultures, Language, and Literacy

Author: Stanton Wortham

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1412997062

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Drawing upon international research, Review of Research in Education, Volume 35 examines the interplay between youth cultures and educational practices. Although the articles describe youth practices across a range of settings, a central theme is how gender, class, race, and national identity mediate both adult perceptions of youth and youths' experiences of schooling.

Redcoated Ploughboys
Redcoated Ploughboys

Author: Richard Feltoe

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2012-03-03

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1554889987

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In 1812 the future of North America hung in the balance when the United States declared war on Britain. In response a corps of men volunteeredfor the Battalion of Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada. This book brings the story of the regiment back to life, revealing a fascinating lost chapter in military history.

Aesthetic Formations
Aesthetic Formations

Author: Birgit Meyer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-07-20

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0230623247

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This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema.

Transcultural Teens
Transcultural Teens

Author: Chantal Tetreault

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1118388119

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Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cité, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions of intercultural animosity. Provides solid, real-world evidence in the often abstracted theoretical debate on globalization and transnationalism Offers detailed data on linguistic practices that is more focused than generalized anthropological studies Includes the experiences of French-Algerian adolescent girls who remain largely absent from academic and popular discourse Reveals the cultural richness and diversity of a population that is stigmatized and marginalized in a national context