Editors:
- Sheds light on academic freedom and the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western conceptions and practices
- highlights East Asia in comparison with the U.S. and Australia as examples of parallel developments in the East and the West
- Draws readers’ attention to an urgent issue that affects not only the health of the academic profession but the integrity of higher education as a common good
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 54)
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (13 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
About this book
This book argues that academic freedom in higher education in East Asia, the U.S. and Australia is under stress. Academic freedom means freedom to teach, research, and serve in multiple political and social roles based on professional principles. It is closely linked to shared governance, in which academics participate in and influence decision making in core academic concerns such as choosing new faculty, faculty promotion, tenure decisions and the approval of new academic programs.
In different countries and regions, the duress confronting academic freedom may come from different directions, and the ability of faculty to share power can vary greatly. In authoritarian mainland China, it is mostly political and ideological controls that greatly affect academic freedom, and shared governance is very much limited. In semi-democracies like Hong Kong and Macau and democracies like Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the U.S. and Australia, corporatization and commercialization havehad great impact on both academic freedom and shared governance.The result is that the roles professors play within academia are continually being diminished and the academic profession is struggling to maintain its ground. Similar developments are also occurring in Europe. These developments should cause great concern to educators, researchers and policymakers everywhere. The authors collected here present attempts to learn from current practice in order to move policy into directions that will help protect higher education as a common good.
This book highlights the importance of academic freedom and provides insights into the ways it is being infringed both by commercialization and corporatization on the one hand and political repression on the other. It vividly illustrates detailed case studies and empirical data that make it a compelling read.- Professor Ruth Hayhoe, University of Toronto, Canada
Academic freedom is as important today as at any time in the last century. The authors point out the challenges that academic freedom faces on a global scale. The import of the book is in its comparative perspective steeped in data and analysis. Thoughtful. Cogent. Compelling. - Professor William G. Tierney and Professor Wilbur-Kieffer, University of Southern California, United States
Keywords
- Educational policy
- Academic commercialization and corporatization
- Shared governance
- Research, teaching and service
- Sociology of higher education
- Faculty power
- Academic profession
- Academic excellence
- Accountability
- University governance
- Academic capitalism
- academic freedom
- casualization of faculty
- factors influencing academic freedom
- institutional autonomy
- sociology of higher education
- student evaluations and expectations
Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
-
University of Macau, Macao, China
Zhidong Hao, Peter Zabielskis
About the editors
Zhidong Hao is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Macau. He obtained his PhD in sociology from the City University of New York in 1995 and taught at Whittier College the following year. In 2003, he went to the University of Macau after a year of Fulbright Scholarship research in Taiwan on national identity and the role of intellectuals. He was Program Coordinator of the China Studies Program, Chair of the Department of Sociology, and Director of the Social Science Research Center on Contemporary China in Macau. Prior to his PhD studies in New York he taught English at Hebei Teachers’ University in northern China. He has extensive experience in higher education in both Chinese and U.S. contexts.
Peter Zabielskis is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Macau, where he teaches courses in cultural anthropology, theory, religion, the environment, and the anthropology of art. He previously taught at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, and at New York University where he received his PhD. His research interests include material culture, art, architecture, religion, heritage and the urban built environment in Macau and Southeast Asia, especially Penang in Malaysia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Academic Freedom Under Siege
Book Subtitle: Higher Education in East Asia, the U.S. and Australia
Editors: Zhidong Hao, Peter Zabielskis
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49119-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49118-5Published: 03 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49121-5Published: 03 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49119-2Published: 02 November 2020
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 263
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership