Gypsy scholars, migrant teachers and the global academic proletariat : adjunct labour in higher education / edited by Rudolphus Teeuwen and Steffen Hantke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hantke, Steffen, 1962-

Teeuwen, Rudolphus.

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 40.

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers, Part-time--United States.

College teachers, Part-time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Disappointed Hope - Adjunct Teachers in the Two-Tier Academic Labour Market / Rudolphus Teeuwen

Shouting Down the Avalanche / Sarah Gates

Uppity Subalterns and Brazen Compositionists: Confronting Labour Abuses with Theory, Rhetoric, and the Potent Personal / Cynthia Nichols

Adjuncts with Power: Making Policy in University Governance / Carla Love

Academia as a Gift Economy: Adjunct Labour and False Consciousness / Steffen Hantke

Franchising the Disenfranchised: Improving the Lot of Visiting Faculty and Adjuncts / Janet Ruth Heller

“Fair is Foul and Foul is fair”: Schizophrenia in the Academy / Kathleen K. Thornton

Bringing Adjunct Faculty into the Fold of Information and Instructional Technology / Kenneth H. Ryesky

Out of the Frying Pan: From Casual Teaching to Temp Work / Lesley Speed

Excellence and the Adjunct Teacher: Looking Backward 2005-1988 / Rudolphus Teeuwen

In and Out of a Japanese Doctoral Programme / Terry Caesar

Deprofessionalizing / James Kirwan

Education in Taiwan and its International Perspective: Cultural Mimicry’s Synecdochic Fallacies / Christopher J. O’Brien

From Adjunct to Tenured: Both Sides Now / Judith Caesar

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0520-5

1-4356-1216-7

OCLC:

182865707

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401205207 DOI