Academic mobility / / edited by Nina Maadad, Malcolm Tight

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Disciplina: 378
• Soggetto topico: Education - Higher; Education - General; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Education; College teacher mobility
• Altri autori: MaadadNina TightMalcolm
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Editorial Introduction / Nina Maadad, Malcolm Tight -- Being an international academic : a phenomenological study of academic migrants adjusting to working and living in Scotland / Carolin Kreber, Jenny Hounsell -- Mobilised by mobility? Determinants of international mobility plans among doctoral candidates in Germany / Nicolai Netz, Steffen Jaksztat -- Beyond diaspora : the lived experiences of academic mobility for educational researchers in the European higher education area / Fiona Hallett, Mustafa Yunus Eryaman -- The impact of mobility on the lives and careers of female and male academics in higher education / Magdalena Suárez-Ortega, Angelica Risquez -- Patterns and persistence in academic migration : 40 Years of Australian academic migration / Anthony Potts -- Academic mobility and migration : reflections of international academics in Australia / Chinthaka Balasooriya ... [et al.] -- Global academics moving down under : living and learning a new academic culture / Nina Maadad -- English and the academy for African skilled migrants : the impact of English as an 'academic lingua franca' / Ellen Hurst -- Academic expatriation : experiences from within the United Arab Emirates / Kay Sanderson -- Insights into the successful integration of foreign-born faculty in Israeli academia : the empowering effect of in-group ethno-cultural similarity / Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen, Nitza Davidovitch -- "Sensitive fences" : the im/mobility of working-class academics / Signe M. Kastberg -- The protection of the right to academic mobility under International Human Rights Law / Klaus Beiter.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a contemporary perspective on the mobility of academics across the globe. With contributions from authors based across 4 continents focusing on the experience of academic mobility in Africa, Australia, Europe, the Gulf and the United States, the volume is both comprehensive and relevant.
• Titolo autorizzato: Academic mobility
• ISBN: 1-78350-854-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815799803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International perspectives on higher education research ; ; v. 11.