The Japanese Professor

An Ethnography of a University Faculty
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-94-6091-165-1
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

This monograph is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the internal workings of a Japanese university, focussing on the world view of the professor. In this anthropological case study of a private university in urban Tokyo conducted through extended participant observation, Gregory Poole, at once both an insider and outsider, tells an ethnographic story that explicates a professoriate’s working world.
The author addresses one basic problem—how do Japanese professors configure their working world? In answering this research question, he demonstrates how the present climate of competition and restructuring means that faculty members in Japan are faced with the challenge of culturally translating largely western concepts of the university while steadfastly preserving their own local culture of higher education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poole, Gregory S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory S. Poole is Professor of Anthropology in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba. His area of research includes the anthropology of education, language, and Japan and his publications include Higher Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and the Professoriate (2009), co-edited with Ya-chen Chen, and “The Japanese University in Crisis” (2005), coauthored with Ikuo Amano (Higher Education).