BEING ACADEMICIAN IN GLOBALIZING WORLD

H. Ferhan Odabasi, Mehmet Firat, Serkan Ä°zmirli, Serkan Cankaya and Z. Abidin Misirli ()
Additional contact information
Z. Abidin Misirli: Anadolu University

Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences, 2010, vol. 10, issue 3, 127-142

Abstract: Transformations in scholarship, like in every other discipline, have happened in a globalizing world. In this context, the redefinition or the conceptualization of scholarship has great importance. In this study, first with historical transformation happening in higher education, the changing role of the scholarship has been discussed. Scholarship concept and as academic activities teaching, research, social service, and management have been examined. In addition, research-teaching dilemma in academic activities has been mentioned and problems that belong to academic life have been handled. Results of the examined researches showed that scholarship concept is generally related to academic activities. In this context, it has seen that research and teaching activities as a dilemma that occupy academic agenda have three kinds of relationships: positive, negative and no relationship. Besides, it has seen that academicians have been faced varied problems in all over the world. But because there are a limited number of studies in Turkey, it is hard to localize Turkey’s position in world discussion agenda.

Keywords: scholarship; teaching; research; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.anadolu.edu.tr/arastirma/hakemli_dergil ... 010-3/2010_03_09.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:and:journl:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:127-142

Access Statistics for this article

Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences is currently edited by Ramazan Geylan

More articles in Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences from Anadolu University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Social Sciences Institute ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).