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Aichinger, Theresa; Fankhauser, Peter; Goodman, Roger – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2017
Working conditions in academia are generally considered to be deteriorating. Data from surveys which look at the job satisfaction of academics, however, do not clearly support this notion. This appears to be especially true for the case of Japan. Much of the recent literature on academics' job satisfaction globally relies on the comparison of two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Conditions, Teaching Conditions, Work Environment
Goodman, Roger – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2007
Globalisation has become one of the most fashionable concepts in social scientific discourse over the past 15 years, along with a related vocabulary of words such as "transnationalism", "McDonaldisation", "Cocacolanisation", "localisation" and "glocalisation". Much ink has been spilt on how such…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Change, Social Environment, Foreign Countries