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Differences in Influence: Different Types of University Employees Compared
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Kallenberg, Ton – Tertiary Education and Management, 2020
Changes, improvements and innovations in university organisations regularly end up in sluggish processes and get stuck 'somewhere' in the organisation. It is argued that cooperation and mutual influencing of work processes between academic and professional employees of different departments can have a positive effect on these innovations. Because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, School Personnel, College Faculty
Academic Sensemaking and Behavioural Responses--Exploring How Academics Perceive and Respond to Identity Threats in Times of Turmoil
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Degn, Lise – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Reforms and changing ideas about what higher education institutions are and should be have put pressure on academic identity. The present paper explores the way academics in Danish universities make sense of their changing circumstances, and how this affects their perceptions of their organization, their leaders and of themselves. The study…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity, Guidelines
Identity Constructions and Sensemaking in Higher Education--A Case Study of Danish Higher Education Department Heads
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Degn, Lise – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Academic values and norms have as a consequence of the wave of European higher education reforms been put under pressure by the increasing expectations and demands of flexibility, entrepreneurialism and accountability. This article examines how these changes affect identity construction processes at department head level in the case of Danish…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Department Heads, Foreign Countries, Professional Identity
Academic Staff Involvement and Openness to Diversity in International Educational Organisations: Is There a Moderating Effect of Shared Language?
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Selmer, Jan; Lauring, Jakob; Jonasson, Charlotte – Higher Education Quarterly, 2013
Joint work among academic staff is important for solving the ever-increasing number of complex tasks that are becoming part of everyday activities in higher education. At the same time, diversification and internationalisation may challenge collaboration processes and communication demands. Speaking a shared language consistently could be a way of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, Science Departments
Plug Into "The Modernizing Machine"! Danish University Reform and Its Transformable Academic Subjectivities
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Krejsler, John Benedicto – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2013
"The modernizing machine" codes individual bodies, things, and symbols with images from New Public Management, neo-liberal, and Knowledge Economy discourses. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of machines, this article explores how "the modernizing machine" produces neo-liberal modernization of the public sector. Taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Legislation
Sticking in the Watershed for 12 Years: Towards Restructured Librarianship and Information Science Programmes in Denmark.
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Kajberg, Leif – Education for Information, 1985
Outlines issues and influences in Danish library education since 1970, drawing attention to existence of two separate courses for public and special/research libraries and Danish Library School's distinct departmentalism. Problems and salient features of existing curricula and Danish Library School's guiding principles for a revised program in…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation