Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat

Adjunct Labour in Higher Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-420-2309-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Once adjunct teaching was considered a temporary solution to faculty shortages in institutions of higher education. Now it is a permanent and indispensable feature of such institutions, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. This book takes stock of this new development, concentrating primarily on the situation in the humanities. It looks at its impact on the lives of the highly-educated scholars and teachers from many parts of the world; scholars waking up to the sobering fact that higher education presents them with a two-tiered labour market in which they themselves are permanently barred from moving up to the higher tier. To them, being an adjunct teacher means experiencing frustration and humiliation. All essays in this book offer personal accounts of adjuncts’ experiences together with critical reflections on institutional conditions and suggestions for their improvement. In turn defiant, poignant, analytical, exasperated, and sardonic, these essays are always incisive and revealing. Their inside view—a view from below—shows higher education as a world different from how it appears to tenured professors and university administrators, different from that presented in most college brochures. For all those who care about the current state and the future of higher education—no matter if they are teachers, scholars, students, parents, or administrators—this book will offer valuable insights into the working world of academic teaching.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Teeuwen, Rudolphus

Hantke, Steffen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Rudolphus TEEUWEN: Introduction: Disappointed Hope- Adjunct Teachers in the Two-Tier Academic Labour Market
Part I Adjunct Teaching in the USA
Sarah GATES: Shouting Down the Avalanche
Cynthia NICHOLS: Uppity Subalterns and Brazen Com positionists: Confronting Labour Abuses with Theory, Rhetoric, and the Potent Personal
Carla LOVE: Adjuncts with Power: Making Policy in University Governance
Steffen HANTKE: Academia as a Gift Economy: Adjunct Labour and False Consciousness
Janet Ruth HELLER: Franchising the Disenfranchised: Improving the Lot of Visiting Faculty and Adjuncts
Kathleen K. THORNTON: “Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair”: Schizophrenia in the Academy
Kenneth H. RYESKY: Bringing Adjunct Faculty into the Fold of Information and Instructional Technology
Part II Adjunct Teaching outside of the USA
Lesley SPEED: Out of the Frying Pan: From Casual Teaching to Temp Work
Rudolphus TEEUWEN: Excellence and the Adjunct Teacher: Looking Backward 2005-1988
Terry CAESAR: In and Out of a Japanese Doctoral Programme
James KIRWAN: Deprofessionalizing
Christopher J. O’BRIEN: Education in Taiwan and its International Perspective: Cultural Mimicry’s Synecdochic Fallacies
Judith CAESAR: From Adjunct to Tenured: Both Sides Now
Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolphus Teeuwen is associate professor of English at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He is interested in the intersection of literature and philosophy, especially in the English and French eighteenth centuries, in the genres of utopia, and in literary theory. He published essays and reviews on these topics and editedCrossings: Travel, Art, Literature, Politics (Bookman, Taipei, 2001).

Steffen Hantke currently teaches at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, as Associate Professor for British and American Culture. He is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature(Peter Lang, 1994) as well as editor ofHorror: Creating and Marketing Fear(University Press of Mississippi, 2004), and Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945 (Scarecrow Press, 2007). He has published essays and reviews on contemporary literature, film, and culture in Paradoxa, College Literature, The Journal of Popular Culture, Post Script, Kinema, Scope, Science Fiction Studies, and other journals.