Academics' Professionalism and Quality Mechanisms: Challenges and Tensions

Autor/in	Cheng, Ming
Titel	Academics' Professionalism and Quality Mechanisms: Challenges and Tensions
Quelle	In: Quality in Higher Education, 15 (2009) 3, S.193-205 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1353-8322
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Sociology; Evaluation; Higher Education; Interviews; Case Studies; Audits (Verification); United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Soziologie; Evaluierung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	This paper provides an insight into the debate about academic work as a profession. It refers to the sociology of professions and explores how academics in a pre-1992 university in England understood their work as a profession and how they interpreted their professionalism in the context of an audit culture for teaching. It reveals that academics' professionalism has affected their attitudes towards audit-related quality mechanisms and resulted in a perceived tension between professional values and the audit. This tension was caused by the perceived bureaucracy of the audit, its time cost and the perception that the audit is a symbol of distrust in the professionalism of academics. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10