Overview
- Explains what drives and deters academics from international activities
- Addresses the multiple dimensions of the internationalization of the academy
- Assesses the consequences of internationalization on academic work and productivity
Part of the book series: The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective (CHAC, volume 10)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- academic profession
- academic work and productivity
- changes in the internationalization of the academy
- dimensions of the internationalization of the academy
- empirical assessment
- higher education institutions
- history of higher education's internationalization
- international activity
- internationalized academic activities
- physical mobility for study
About this book
This volume provides a nuanced empirical assessment of the extent to which the academic profession is internationalized at the beginning of the 21st century. It indicates which are the most internationalized academic activities, and focuses on specific topics such as physical mobility for study or professional purposes, teaching abroad or in another language, research collaboration with foreign colleagues, and publication and dissemination outside one’s native country or in another language. It places the main theme in the wider context of the history of higher education’s internationalization. It provides explanations on what drives and deters academics from international activity, and documents some of the consequences that internationalization has on academic work and productivity.
This study is based on a survey of 25,000 academics working at higher education institutions in 18 countries and Hong Kong on five continents. Comparing data from the 1992 Carnegie International study to the 2007 CAP survey, relying on respondents’ perceptions of change, and comparing different academic generations, it offers valuable insights on changes in the internationalization of the academy.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Internationalization of the Academy
Book Subtitle: Changes, Realities and Prospects
Editors: Futao Huang, Martin Finkelstein, Michele Rostan
Series Title: The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7278-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7277-9Published: 07 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0748-8Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7278-6Published: 25 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2214-5346
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 302
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education