The Japanese Professor

An Ethnography of a University Faculty

von Gregory S Poole

202 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This monograph is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the internal workings of a Japanese university, focussing on the world view of the professor. In this anthropological case study of a private university in urban Tokyo conducted through extended participant observation, Gregory Poole, at once both an insider and outsider, tells an ethnographic story that explicates a professoriate's working world. The author addresses one basic problem--how do Japanese professors configure their working world? In answering this research question, he demonstrates how the present climate of competition and restructuring means that faculty members in Japan are faced with the challenge of culturally translating largely western concepts of the university while steadfastly preserving their own local culture of higher education.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften
• ISBN: 9789460911545
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2010
• Größe: 235 x 159 mm
• Verlag: Brill