Academic Generations and Academic Work: Patterns of Attitudes, Behaviors, and Research Productivity of Polish Academics after 1989

Autor/in	Kwiek, Marek
Titel	Academic Generations and Academic Work: Patterns of Attitudes, Behaviors, and Research Productivity of Polish Academics after 1989
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 40 (2015) 8, S.1354-1376 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2015.1060706
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Productivity; Teacher Attitudes; Social Systems; Social Change; Educational Change; Educational History; Age Differences; Behavior Change; Attitude Change; Educational Policy; Professional Identity; Teacher Motivation; Networks; Scientific Research; Competition; Teaching Load; Faculty Publishing; Time Management; Questionnaires; Semi Structured Interviews; Foreign Countries; Cross Cultural Studies; Collegiality; Financial Support; Mixed Methods Research; Surveys; Comparative Analysis; Austria; Finland; Germany; Ireland; Italy; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Switzerland; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Produktivität; Lehrerverhalten; Social system; Soziales System; Sozialer Wandel; Bildungsreform; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Wettkampf; Lehrdeputat; Zeitmanagement; Fragebogen; Ausland; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Kollegialität; Finanzielle Förderung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Österreich; Finnland; Deutschland; Irland; Italien; Niederlande; Norwegen; Polen; Schweiz; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper focuses on a generational change taking place in the Polish academic profession: a change in behaviors and attitudes between two groups of academics. One was socialized to academia under the communist regime (1945-1989) and the other entered the profession in the post-1989 transition period. Academics of all age groups are beginning to learn how tough the competition for research funding is, but young academics ("academics under 40"), being the target of recent policy initiatives, need to learn faster. Current reforms present a clear preferred image for a new generation of Polish academics: highly motivated, embedded in international research networks, publishing mostly internationally, and heavily involved in the competition for academic recognition and research funding. In the long run, without such a radical approach, any international competition between young Polish academics (with a low research orientation and high teaching hours) and their young Western European colleagues (with a high research orientation and low teaching hours) seems inconceivable, as our data on the average academic productivity clearly demonstrate. The quantitative background of this paper comes from 3704 returned questionnaires and the qualitative background from 60 semi-structured in-depth interviews. The paper takes a European comparative approach and contrasts Poland with 10 Western European countries (using 17,211 returned questionnaires). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01