Students, staff, and academic mobility in higher education. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mike Byram and Fred Dervin.
• Other Names: Byram, Michael; Dervin, Fred, 1974-
• Contents: The student experience of mobility, a contrasting score / Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune -- The "value" of academic mobility / Michael Byram -- A difficult balance between rhetoric and practice : student mobility in Finland and other European countries from 1800 to 1930 / Pieter Dhondt -- "Teaching for residence abroad" : blending synchronic and diachronic perspectives on the assistant year abroad / Susanne Ehrenreich -- Why study abroad? : an analysis of Erasmus students' motivations / Ewa Krzaklewska -- Internationally mobile students in Australian universities : questions of place, identity, and valued resources / Catherine Doherty and Parlo Singh -- The motivations of exchange students at Scandinavian universities / Tim Caudery, Margrethe Petersen, and Philip Shaw -- The double life of Erasmus students / Ioannis Tsoukalas -- Russian immigrants adapting to academic norms in Israeli universities / Kathy Durkin -- The critical gaze of mobile students : the case of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Michal Assa-Inbar, Tamar Rapoport, and Gad Yair -- Students' perspectives upon their mobility : the experiences of Romanian, Polish, and Bulgarian outgoing students / Mihai Paunescu -- Is Erasmus mobility beneficial for English philology students? : an empirical approach / Immaculada Sanz-Sainz and Immaculada Roldán-Miranda -- Study experience abroad : Italian graduate characteristics and employment outcomes / Andrea Cammelli, Silvia Ghiselli, and Gian Piero Mignoli -- Figures of strangeness : blending perspectives from mobile academics / Fred Dervin and Māra Dirba -- Mobile academics Down Under : the ecologies of practice, fraternal itineraries, and professional identities of three Australian university lecturers / Patrick A. Danaher, Mike Danaher, and Geoff Danaher -- Assumptions about academic mobility, educational equality, and "our" Finnish higher education system / David M. Hoffman -- Myths and modes of mobility : the changing face of academic mobility in the global era / Anthony Welch.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 313 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.432; Higher & further education, tertiary education; College student mobility; College teacher mobility; Foreign study; Educational exchanges; Student mobility; Occupational mobility; Universities and colleges -- Social aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; College student mobility; College teacher mobility; Educational exchanges; Foreign study; Akademiker; Hochschule; Mobilität; Student; Teaching staff; Students & student organisations; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443808361; 1443808369
• Related ISBNs: 9781847186034; 1847186033
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.