Academic mobility

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 rele...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Maadad, Nina, Tight, Malcolm
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
SeriesInternational perspectives on higher education research ; v. 11.
Subjects
College teacher mobility.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781783508549
ISSN1479-3628 ;
DOI10.1108/S1479-3628201411
Physical Description1 online resource (310 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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