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Moving on in academia : exploring the career experiences of professors at a UK university
Full text linkThis study was aimed at providing a better understanding of academic socialisation. Informed by a biographical research approach, the study explored the career experiences of 12 professors from 12 academic departments at a UK university through a series of indepth, semi-structured qualitative interviewing interviews, documentary analysis and a literature review. It set out to highlight how the academics in the study reflexively construct their academic identities and to provide some answers to the question: What is the history of how people have come to be professors? This study suggests that the transformation of these individuals' identities as academics was the outcome of active participation in various communities of practice throughout their careers. Academics continuously learn to position themselves within the various communities of practice that they choose to participate in. The professors' career stories reveal how they make sense and negotiate their identities as academics through accommodating with the power relations, ideology, cultures and ways embedded within the communities of practice of which they are members. Instead of looking at academics as passive participants, the findings provide evidence of individuals' voluntarism and agency in constructing their academic identities. This study contributes to the continuing discussion on academic socialisation through describing the experiences of academics moving through different stages in their careers. The in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviewing approach offers a fuller appreciation of the challenges and opportunities involved in academic socialisation. Demystifying the career experiences of academics may benefit others in academia in navigating their future career undertakings.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceUniversiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia. Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam [Public Service Dept.]GBUnited Kingdo
Leadership Functions in Managing a Parent Teacher Association
Full text linkThis inquiry studied the nature of leadership in Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and how
it functions in the management of the organisation.
The study used qualitative case study as the
methodology. The informants were PTA exco members,
teachers and parents. Semi-structured interviews
which were recorded act as the primary data of this
inquiry. Each recorded interview was transcribed
verbatim into the computer. There searcher has also
used documents provided by informants to support
the findings. Data were managed using a personal
computer and the 'cut and paste' method. The study found that the PTA leadership
focused more on the task related activities than
the relationship activities. Teachers were found
to be more actively involved than parents. The
communication between parents and teachers was
minimal and stunted the efforts of developing a PTA
which balances between carrying out various activities and simultaneously building a close knitted
relationship among members
Moving on in academia : exploring the career experiences of professors at a UK university
Full text linkThis study was aimed at providing a better understanding of academic socialisation.
Informed by a biographical research approach, the study explored the career experiences
of 12 professors from 12 academic departments at a UK university through a series of indepth,
semi-structured qualitative interviewing interviews, documentary analysis and a
literature review. It set out to highlight how the academics in the study reflexively
construct their academic identities and to provide some answers to the question: What is
the history of how people have come to be professors?
This study suggests that the transformation of these individuals' identities as academics
was the outcome of active participation in various communities of practice throughout
their careers. Academics continuously learn to position themselves within the various
communities of practice that they choose to participate in. The professors' career stories
reveal how they make sense and negotiate their identities as academics through
accommodating with the power relations, ideology, cultures and ways embedded within
the communities of practice of which they are members. Instead of looking at academics
as passive participants, the findings provide evidence of individuals' voluntarism and
agency in constructing their academic identities.
This study contributes to the continuing discussion on academic socialisation through
describing the experiences of academics moving through different stages in their careers.
The in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviewing approach offers a fuller
appreciation of the challenges and opportunities involved in academic socialisation.
Demystifying the career experiences of academics may benefit others in academia in
navigating their future career undertakings
Becoming a professor: researching history and academic identity
No full textThis study was aimed at providing a better understanding of the academic career. It has contributed to the continuing discussion on academic socialisation. Informed by the biographical research tradition, this study explored the career experiences of 12 professors from 12 academic departments at a UK university. The study involved documenting the academics' career stories through a series of in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviewing interviews, documentary analysis and a literature review
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Malaysian academicians perspectives on continuous professional development of academics in Malaysian public universities
No full textPublic universities in Malaysia are expected to produce graduates who are not only employable, but must also be capable to contribute to the development of the nation and to fulfil national aspirations which ultimately make the Malaysian public universities remain competitive in the QS World Ranking of Universities. One of the critical factors that would enable this is by supporting the continuous professional development (CPD) for the academics so that they would be able to enhance their quality of teaching, research and consultancy services as their core duties. This study addresses the perspectives of the Malaysian academicians in public universities with regard to the implementation of continuous professional development initiatives taken by the respected public universities. Employing the qualitative approach, we analysed the perspectives of the academicians from public universities on the issues and challenges as well as institutional support given to them related to continuous professional development of the academicians. Data are drawn from interviews with several academicians as well as analysis of relevant documents. Findings indicated that the academicians have specific and diverse needs for CPD in order to enhance the quality of their teaching, research and consultancy services. They concurred that the universities have provided relevant support for CPD especially to the young academicians. There are areas in which support was particularly strong and other areas which the universities are constraint due to reduction of annual budget. Various issues and challenges with regard to institutional governance as the framework and policies are being strengthened to equip the academicians with the Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) requirements so as to make them remain relevant, referred and respected in their functions
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