How academics view their work

✍ Scribed by J. P. Powell; E. Barrett; V. Shanker

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 811 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0018-1560
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00154426

✦ Synopsis

Twenty-four members of the academic staff of an Australian university were interviewed in 1979 in order to seek their views on the ways in which their professional lives were being affected by the current recession in higher education. Their responses have been drawn upon to construct a picture of how this group of university teachers perceive their working environment and their own place within it. The comments cluster around seven topics: teaching, students, research, colleagues, career prospects, the university, and the quality of academic life. It is concluded that the responses suggest that there is a widening gap between academic ideals and institutional realities and that this will have a strongly negative effect upon the morale of the profession.