Challenges in developing the academic profession in the Western Balkans (CROSBI ID 289146)
Prilog u časopisu | izvorni znanstveni rad | međunarodna recenzija
Podaci o odgovornosti
Pavlin, Samo ; Sušanj, Zoran
engleski
Challenges in developing the academic profession in the Western Balkans
In this paper, we explore the developmental challenges facing the academic profession in Europe and especially in some Western Balkan countries, Croatia and Slovenia. First, we look at how the higher education environment determines key changes to the academic profession: expectations to demonstrate professional expertise, internationalisation, segmentation, and precarity. While these processes are mainly considered from the above perspective, we also examine the work of academics from within. Second, we discuss aspects of academic tasks, challenges of synchronising academic work with performance measures, intensification of work and expansion of bureaucratic tasks. Building on these perspectives, we introduce a qualitative pilot study that tests how these general trends described in the literature may be applied to given situations in five countries of former Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo. Although these countries cover a relatively small geographical area, the differences among them with respect to the economy, society and politics are important. Our findings suggest that problems accumulating in academic work in Slovenia and Croatia were in almost all of the surveyed aspects less problematic than in the three other observed countries.
academic profession, croatia, higher education, kosovo, north macedonia, precarisation, professionalisation, serbia, slovenia, western balkans
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Podaci o izdanju
55 (4)
2020.
573-586
objavljeno
0141-8211
1465-3435
10.1111/ejed.12427
Povezanost rada
Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti, Obrazovne znanosti, Psihologija, Sociologija